John 3:29-30
“That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater; I must become less.”
We are in quarantine and I don’t know if it’s just my social media feeds due to my age group or if everyone is experiencing this, but I feel like an alarmingly large percentage of people I graduated with are now selling something online (some may call it pyramid schemes). I don’t know how or why people start doing it, but when they do, it can sometimes take over their lives and becomes their main personality trait…or at least it seems that way on social media. They want to tell everybody and show everybody what this great, new, revolutionary thing is that they “discovered.”
Then it hit me, these people are witnessing better than I am.
Jesus calls us as His followers to be His witnesses. We see it in Matthew 28, Acts 1, and the end of Luke 24, to name a few places. He promises His Spirit and then tells the disciples to tell others. Fast forward a few years and here we are. Same situation: Holy Spirit + call to witness. It reminds me of my friends on social media who fully embody the products they are selling and there is a visible transformation on how they are living their lives.
Jesus calls us into that same transformation, but the glory isn’t some company buying you Chevy Equinox when you sell enough product, but it’s that we get to have a relationship with the creator of the universe and then spend eternity in paradise with Him. Way better than heated seats and XM radio.
Now to move to the how. Jesus asks us to witness but how can we effectively do that in our own lives. The hard answer here is that we are all different and so we will all relate and witness differently. I do think that our good friend John the Baptist has a wise approach though. When asked about his relationship with Jesus he stated that in His life, it is literally His joy to become less as Christ becomes more.
So, as you go throughout the rest of your week, I challenge you to look at different situations and think how can I be a witness, how can I become less, and He becomes greater? My parents ask me to do some chores around the house? My sister wants to watch a movie that I don’t think I’ll like? My mom asks me to play with my little brother? Look at how you can become less and how you can glorify Jesus by serving those around you and being a witness.