Nowadays engineers build wide, huge roads into deserts and swamps. They build big bridges over valleys and rivers, but they cannot provide a connection between men and God. Do you want God himself to build a right path from him into your heart, your family, and your friends? Are you prepared to tell others about the Lord’s work and imminent coming that they may become prepared to accept him?
Many people seek writing and broadcasting that they may become famous, guides, and leaders among their people, but only few of them are actually called by God. Their voice is empty and valueless. Yet, John the Baptist was the messenger of Christ. He rose in the power of the Holy Spirit, and his Lord put the words of the prophet Isaiah into his mouth. With his words, he penetrated into the hearts of many, declared their sins to them, and saw in the wilderness an example of the spiritually dead souls that are deprived of the showers of God’s grace.
John the Baptist preached sincere repentance, in order to it; he told his hearers that there must be a change of their minds, a renovation of their hearts and a reformation of their lives that they must confess their sins, and deny themselves following their baptism in the Jordan River. The confession of sins in public was to break their pride, and the baptism was to symbolize the purification of the sinner, and the death of the old man with his deeds.
Did you know that every man, including you, long for comprehensive forgiveness and purification? So, confess your sins now before your Lord, and open yourself to him faithfully.
John declared the remission of sins in the name of God, and in the power of his Spirit, to prepare the way of the coming Christ, and thousands repented brokenly before the Holy One. However, the Baptist knew in his heart that repentance, confession, waters of baptism, and words of forgiveness were not sufficient to make radical change in man, for the Holy Spirit alone comforts the hearts and reforms man. So, God revealed to his praying prophet that Christ would come quickly to give the repentant a new heart, and to baptize them with his Holy Spirit. John the ascetic trembled at the very thought of meeting with the Son of God personally, for he knew that he was not good enough even to bend down and untie the sandals of the coming One, since no one is good but God.
The divine design is to fill the repentant with the spirit of love. However, no man can receive this spirit except through abiding faith in the living Christ who is, together with his Father, the fountain of this blessed Spirit. So, come to Jesus soon, confessing your sins and intending to forsake them entirely that he may forgive all your sins, and fill you with his kind, pure Spirit. He who calls you is faithful, who also will make you perfect if you come to him.