He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. John 1:23
John the Baptist was asked the question by the priest and Levites sent by the Jews from Jerusalem, “Who are you?” John could have answered however he wanted. He could have claimed to be anything he wanted to be. He could’ve answered along this line, “I am the cousin of Jesus.” Instead of name dropping, he simply said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”
May I ask you the same question? In this time of shakiness, uncertainty, doubt, indecision, and hesitation, who are you? If I may be brutally honest, most of us, when introduced to someone or a new position, feel like we have to declare who and what we are by those who we know or have known.
John declared who and what he was by the most powerful thing he had been given, a voice. We complain about what we do not like, agree with, or find palatable to our social taste. Why have things gone the direction they have? You have heard the proverbial saying; the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
If one man can be sent by God into this world to declare who He is and prepare the way before Him, what can tens of thousands of us do if we find our voice? This is not about you simply praying over a lunch in front of a few people that we think are prominent. This is about our everyday verbiage “language” in front of the real world we live in. It does not stop with our communication. It is what we walk out behind closed doors. This is when we are who we really are. It matters how and what we are even in the wilderness.
Our prayer for you this week: May you come to realize the power in having a voice.
