Do People Behold You or Christ?
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” — John 1:29
Those were John’s words. He didn’t say “look at me,” or “listen to my ministry,” but behold Jesus. The measure of our Christian life is not how loudly we speak, but whom we point others to.
When we lift our eyes to Jesus, the Lamb who “taketh away the sin of the world,” we remember that our message is not self-help, not moral improvement, not religious effort. Our message is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. The spotless Lamb stepped into our world to carry what we could not: our sin.
So the question today is simple: Are we pointing others to Him? When people hear us speak, do they behold Christ or do they behold us?
Forgive the short article, I nearly made this a note. This verse and this question pressed on my heart tonight, and I felt led to share it just as it came. Am I pointing others to Him?
When people hear me speak, when they read my words, when they see my life… do they behold Christ, or do they behold me? It’s easy to talk about Jesus but it’s harder to disappear behind Him. That’s the desire of my heart tonight, and hopefully every night: that my life would make much of Christ and not of myself.
If this question sits on your heart the way it sat on mine, I pray the Lord uses it to draw us both closer to Him.
Victorious in Christ,
— Shawn F. Parker
Editor & Contributor, The Redeemed Report