Sept 28 - Luke 1:76-77

And you, child, will be called

the prophet of the Most High;

for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, 

to give knowledge of salvation to his people

by the forgiveness of their sins.

Luke 1:76-77

At the birth of John the Baptist, Zechariah said to his infant son, "You will go before the Lord to prepare his ways."

It should be noted that it wasn't just Zechariah who said this. He was "67 filled with the Holy Spirit and sp[eaking] this proph[etically]."

That was John's role. He did go before the Lord Jesus and prepare his way.

Have you ever stopped to think that this is your role too. You and I are to "go before the Lord to prepare his ways." It's not that God isn't always there before us. But in a darkened world, sometimes people need a visible witness. That's you and me. As the Apostle says in 1 Peter 3:15, we are constantly called "to give an account of the hope that is in [us]."

And what should our message be? It's the hope of heaven and the "knowledge of salvation."

And how does it come? "By the forgiveness of their sins." It's not cheap grace. It's the message John the Baptist himself proclaimed -- our repentance that leads to God's forgiveness.

In Christ's Love,

a guy whose called to walk into darkness

and be "a prophet of the most high"