John 3:30
He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease.
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That small and simple statement of John the Baptist is one of the single most profound in all of either the Old or New Testaments. Our lives are all about the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider a child's seesaw, a teeter totter, when one side goes up the other goes down, and vice versa. It is simple physics and it is a simple truth here. To whatever degree one side goes up, the other goes down. And remember, all of the glory belongs to the Lord! {1Tim.1:17}

In 2013 as my wife Alice were traveling and ministering in the United Kingdom and Western Europe I was invited to spend a couple of weeks teaching pastors at a small bible university in Kenya as well as visiting a number of cities and villages there to preach. It so happened that while I was there I had my 70th birthday and the brothers and sisters at the school, fellow workers in the fields, gave me a surprise birthday party. It was a wonderful and blessed time of fellowship. After finishing my time there, Alice and I headed back to the UK where we immediately went to North Wales to take part in a conference.

While there a person was talking about the wonder of creation, of God creating everything from nothing in just seven days. A thought struck me (quite hard actually) and I began to pray and ask the Lord, 'Why if You could do all that in seven days and You have been working on me for 70 years now, why am I not finished yet? A still small voice that I know so well said to me, 'You are not nothing yet!' The more of Him depends on the less of me.

It is certainly a matter of humility, and of course we have been instructed to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, which of course continues with the promise that He will exalt us at the proper time, just as Peter wrote. {1Pt.5:6} My degree of humility, and yours, is very dependent on the reality and the acceptance of Paul's statement to the Galatians that "I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me!" {Gal.2:20}

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)

LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD