Are You the "One" or Should We Look for Another?

"Are You the one, or should we look for another?" 

These are the very words which came out of the mouth of John the Baptist. The man whom the prophets spoke of "There will be one crying out in the wilderness..."  This is the same man who preached "...but One mightier then I is coming, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire." This John the Baptist was a man full of faith and power. He was one who preached a message of Holiness and Repentance in the wilderness and had masses of people go out to hear it. Salvation occurred in the wilderness and not in the temples.

Yet this same man, in a time of desperation questioned the very One he had been anointed to be a pathfinder for. Isn't it crazy, how we can be doing the "things of God" yet in our most stressful times question His supremacy and call over our lives. Isn't it in those times of change and challenge that we also act like John, questioning His plans for us. Isn't is funny how when all is well and "blessed" that we are willing to claim "we will die for the cause" yet once we are in prison we cry "are you the one..."

I'm finding that as I study the life and ministry of John the Baptist, he is becoming to me more of the typology of the bride of Christ then ever before.

He was called to preach a message in a place that was foreign to many
He prepared the coming of the Lord
He was persecuted for his message
He withdrew from his principle in a moment of pressure
He eventually died because of his regained passion for the call

My prayer today is that we continue to  pursue God and His will for our lives despite where we may be. As He responded to John I believe if we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we can hear the Lord say :

"...the blind see, the lame walk, the sick are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me."

by Ed Pacheco, Jr.

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