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

These words from John the Baptist, when I was a young follower of Jesus, God put on my heart as

what I want to be the theme of my life. And I share that, not at all saying or assuming that

my life exemplifies John 330, but I want it to. This picture of John the Baptist,

when a lot of people are putting attention on him, he says, I'm here for one reason. I want to

decrease, and I want Jesus to increase. I don't want you to think about me, John says. I want you to think about him. I don't want you to look to me.

I want you to look to him. And in this sense, these words represent the essence of what it means to be a

follower of Jesus. It means to die to yourself in every way, to not live for yourself in any way, and instead

to live for Jesus and His glory in everything. And I think that one of the reasons this verse

stuck out to me and has stuck with me in the way it has for decades now is because it's such a battle in my heart,

my flesh on a daily basis to totally die to myself and to live wholly to his glory.

And so I just want to pray this verse over my life in a fresh way today and over your

life today that our hearts cry would be John 30 in everything we do, that Jesus would increase

and that we would decrease. So God, we pray for that. We pray that you would make John 330 the theme of our lives

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