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John chapter 3 verse 30 he must increase but I must decrease.

7. decrease. Uh, seven simple, really hard words to pray.

Here's what I mean by that. When I was younger, a man who had a huge impact on my life

spiritually. He challenged me to identify a verse in the Bible that would be your life

verse. If you could sum up one verse that you want to describe your life, what would it be?

If you can identify one verse that you want to mark your life, what would it be?

And this is the verse that I chose.

John 330, he must increase, but I must decrease.

It's John the Baptist talking about Jesus

saying his purpose in this world is to decrease.

That's what he must do. And Jesus must increase. Meaning

John the Baptist's purpose in this world was to exalt Christ, not himself.

And I say those are simple but hard words

because this verse well I identify this is my life verse I feel like so

often it's just been a constant source of wrestling and struggling in me.

Like I think I really do want to

to increase as best as I can tell in my heart like I want to exalt Jesus I want to see

Jesus exalted. The struggle is I can so easily turn this prayer into he must increase and

I wouldn't mind kind of increasing as well, like but to really say no I want to decrease I want to decrease like I want to be totally forgotten

I don't want anybody even think about me like I'm just being honest here I

oftentimes want people to think well of me I struggle when people don't think well of me. I struggle when people don't think well of me and it's it's a

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