LEGACYouth: Increasing our Decrease
Going off the ‘D’ statement, we find four components in motion: Increase my love for your supremacy (God’s power/authority) Increase my trust in your wise purposes (includes God’s perfect timing) Decrease my personal influence Increase my joyful faith However, before we can break these ingredients down, we must first define “decrease”... Decrease : Dying to self in a way that allows God’s kingdom ¹ to come into greater view. With that said, we can better understand how this "D" applies in John 3 , where o ur two mortal protagonists, Nicodemus and John the Baptist, are coming to terms with their “decrease”. For Nicodemus, Jesus is challenging him to see the kingdom of God as separate from any earthly kingdom and to know Christ as the only way to that kingdom; however, for John, Jesus is essentially inspiring him to do what he had been doing (i.e. to make a way for him baptizing in his name )... a different way . Thi...