Today you should read: Luke 3:1-20
I’ve often wondered what it must have been like to be the person to prepare the way for Jesus. It’d be enough pressure to do that for Moses, or Abraham, or David, but for God Incarnate? Messiah? Salvation Himself?
What a weighty task!
John, though, didn’t buckle under the pressure of this enormous opportunity. He did what he was designed to do: point people to Jesus. He did so with gusto (v.3). He called out sin (v.7-9). He told people what true repentance looked like (v.10-14). He preached the gospel (v. 15-19). John the Baptist knew what lane God had made for him to run in, and he ran hard.
Are you doing the same?
We are all called to do what John did. We continue to prepare the way for the second coming of Jesus. Are you faithfully running in the lane God has placed you in to point people to His Son? Are you courageous and bold, even if might cost you? As we soon find out about John the Baptist in Luke’s gospel, it cost him everything, but in the end, he gained everything.
By: Todd Thomas — Worship & College Pastor
JumpstartCPC.com 
Are you faithfully running in the lane God has placed you in to point people to His Son?
What a great question to marinate in today, Pastor Todd. God has recently changed my “lane to run in” and I’m praying that He will lead me to the next lane that He has prepared. Regardless of where we are or what lane we are running in God asks us to be faithful to walk/run in His light and share the Gospel.
Thanks for the reminder TT.
Thanks Mike! I pray we all wrestle with this question consistently in our walk with the Lord.