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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 1:19-34
It was not the burden of their sins which led the priests and Levites to John the Baptist, but rather curiosity and the desire to form an opinion; perhaps they also felt some anxiety. However their enquiry provides John with the opportunity to deliver his message (cf. 1 Peter 3:15). But it is not on his own account that he has something to say (v. 22). He is only a voice. He is "sent from God . . . to bear witness of the Light" (vv. 6-8). And let us not forget that all the redeemed are called to bear witness to the Light, first and foremost by walking "as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8). In themselves they are nothing, only instruments by which Christ, the moral Light of the world, must be made known.
God told His servant in advance how to recognize the One he is responsible for pointing out. "Behold the Lamb of God", John cries out when the Lord Jesus appears. God provided Himself with a holy Victim to take away the sin of the world. He had been awaited since the fall and foretold by the prophets as well as by the types in the Old Testament (Isaiah 53:1-12; Exodus 12:3). And what a victim! The Lamb of God is none other than the Son of God (v. 34).
