Pastor Steve’s Blog February 3, 2019 I was reading a devotional this week by Claire McGarry entitled: ‘We’re All Messengers.” The Scripture she uses for her devotional is Malachi 3:1: “See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me.” She writes: “In college, I joined the theater crowd and began auditioning for plays. I secured my first role as Messenger #1 in MacBeth. During the entire two-and-a-half-hour production, I had only one line. To make me feel more important, my director told me that the message I was delivering would the help the audience make sense of what followed. John the Baptist was cast in the role of messenger by God. He was sent to deliver a message of repentance so people would turn away from sin, ask God for forgiveness and be baptized. All of John the Baptist’s lines were pivotal in helping people prepare for and make sense of Jesus’ coming. Every one of us has a part in life. Whether it’s big or small, if we deliver our lines with the right intention, our message will point others to Jesus. Doing so will help people make sense of who Our Savior is and what he’s done for us all. Prayer: Dear God, please give me the confidence I need to deliver your message to others. Amen.” The author is right. We are all messengers and the Christian messages we share with others should all point to our Lord Jesus and how much He loves all of us. We need more John the Baptists in our society today pointing the way to Christ.