Knowing One's Position In Mission

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"After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the Judaean countryside and stayed with them there and baptised. Kohn also was baptising at Aenon near Salim, where there was plenty of water, and people were going there and were being baptised. For John had not yet been put in prison.

"Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew about purification, so they went to John and said, 'Rabbi, the man who was with you on the far side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore witness, is baptising now, and everyone is going to him.'

"John replied: 'No one can have anything except what is given him from heaven. You yourselves can bear me out. I said, "I am not the Christ; I am the one who has been sent to go in front of him."

"It is the bridegroom who has the bride; and yet the bridegroom's friend, who stands there and listens to him, is filled with joy at the bridegroom's voice. This is the joy I feel, and it is complete. He must grow greater, I must grow less."

JOHN 3:22-30

"Dear God, help me to be sensitive when it comes to claiming recognition that's not my own. Grant me the strength and courage to do the right thing every time I am faced with this situation,in Jesus' name. Amen."

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