Scriptures
Isaiah 40:3
A voice cries, “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our GOD.”
Malachi 3:1
“Now I am sending my messenger and he will prepare a way for me.”
John 1:16
“There came a man sent from God whose name was John.”
Luke 7:33-34
John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a demon’. The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, “Look at him, A glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”
6. So, they asked John outright, “Who are you? Are you the Messiah we’ve all been waiting for?”
John answered, “I am not the Christ, I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than me will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.’
7. “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
This is THE ONE I MEANT when I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because He was before me.’
8. But the disciples of John quickly reported back to John and said, “Master, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River—the one you said was the Messiah—he’s baptizing people too, and everybody is going over there instead of coming here to us.”
9. John replied, “God in heaven appoints each man’s work. My work is to prepare the way for that man so that everyone will go to Him.
You yourselves know how plainly I told you that I am not the Messiah.
I am here to prepare the way for Him—that is all. The crowds will naturally go to the main attraction—the bride will go where the bridegroom is! A bridegroom’s friends rejoice with him. I am the bridegroom’s friend, and I am filled with joy at His success. He must increase; but I must decrease.
1Peter 5:5-7
Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time God may exalt you in the work you do for Him. Cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you.