Daily Verse August 6, 2010

19 This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John, "Who are you?"
20 He came right out and said, "I am not the Messiah."
21 "Well then, who are you?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?"
"No," he replied.
"Are you the Prophet we are expecting?"
"No."
22 "Then who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?"
23 John replied in the words of the prophet Isaiah:
"I am a voice shouting in the wilderness,
`Clear the way for the Lord's coming!'"
24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent 25 asked him, "If you aren't the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet, what right do you have to baptize?"
26 John told them, "I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize. 27 Though his ministry follows mine, I'm not even worthy to be his slave and untie the straps of his sandal."
(John 1: 19-27, NLT)

John was a great example of being a humble person. Jesus considered him to be the greatest of all prophets in Luke 7:28. Yet, John felt that he was not worthy of a slaves position in the presence of Jesus. I pry that God would make us all this humble. That in the strengths that each of us carry, that we would still look to the who is greater, because it is from God that we have been granted our strengths.

When we boast on our strengths we are at our weakest, because we are relying on ourselves at that point instead of God. I dare each person today to ask God to make you as humble as John in the presence of our Savior Jesus.