All I Can See

All I Can See

Bible: John 3:22-35

He must become greater; I must become less (V.30).

Reading

Krista stood in the freezing cold on a winter day, looking at the snowcovered lighthouse on the cliff edge. As she pulled out her phone to take pictures, her glasses fogged over. She couldn’t see a thing so she decided to point her camera towards the lighthouse and snapped three pictures at different angles. Looking at them later, she realised the camera had been taking selfies! She laughed as she said, “My focus was me, me and me. All I saw was me.” Krista’s photos got me thinking of a similar mistake: we can become so focused on ourselves, we lose sight of the bigger picture of God’s plan.

Jesus’ cousin John (a.k.a. John the Baptist) clearly knew his focus wasn’t himself. Right from the start he recognised his job was to point others to Jesus, the Son of God. “Look, the Lamb of God!” he said when he saw Jesus coming towards him and his followers (JOHN 1:29). He continued, “The reason I came baptising with water was that he might be revealed” (V.31). When John’s followers later told him that Jesus was getting a big following, John said, “You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him’ … He must become greater; I must become less”
(3:28-30)

That’s a good saying for all of us. Let’s keep focused on Jesus, because in all of our lives, “He must become greater; I must become less.”

IF ALL WE CAN SEE IS OURSELVES, WE NEED TO TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO FOCUS ON JESUS.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries