'I' must decrease!
John the Baptist was older to Jesus, He came before Jesus, he started and established a very fruitful ministry before Jesus did, he had more people following him before they started turning to Jesus, in fact he was even instrumental in the baptism of Jesus. Humanly speaking he had all the right to feel bad and threatened about the growing popularity of Jesus and His ministry. But what makes him stand out as a true personification of Humility. At one point in John's life His disciples come to him and says, "Teacher, remember the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River? He is the one you were telling everyone about. He is also baptizing people, and many are going to him." John 3:26. It was like the disciples of John were very concerned about their masters ministry, they were actually asking John, boss you are loosing your popularity, the other guy is taking all your people, do something about it? A typical scenario in today's churches and ministry