Boom! With those words John fulfills his calling. His thirty years of life find their success the moment he speaks the words. He could have died then and there and his life would have been complete. Wow! It must have been awesome to be so certain of the path God had set out before him.
John had just told his persistent “visitors”
not a day before that there was a yet unknown individual on his way who would
take the ministry he had begun to a totally different level. I am not certain John totally understands the
scope of Jesus’ ministry, but he does know one thing—“Behold the Lamb of God!” John and Jesus’ births have both been defined
by miraculous beginnings. John’s parents
were beyond the customary procreative years, but here he is, a personal
testimony to the power of God to perform the impossible.
Jesus’ birth is ushered in by angels’ songs
and visits from a wide-range of worshippers.
His life has already been spared from the clutches of King Herod. Yet he lives thirty years of obscurity, other
than that fateful visit to Jerusalem and the temple on his 12th
birthday. This is the moment—the joining
of two lives—two missions, one beginning to spring forward even as the other is
commencing its path to closure. “Behold
the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world!”
That is my message to the world in one sentence. It’s simple, perhaps even a bit offensive to
some. But it is the power of God unto
salvation to those who believe it like John! (Romans 1:16; 1 Corinthians
1:18) I’m in!
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