Become Less

Trinity asked me what the shirt today I was wearing meant. I gave her a halfway okay answer, maybe, I think, but I wasn't sure it was completely correct. I don't even remember what the answer was now. I'll be able to give her a better one next time, because its kind of cool that it was the focus of today's message at church (even though the verse on my shirt wasn't mentioned): "He must become greater; I must become less." (John 3:30).

The message today started talking about complacent Christians who lost that hunger to really know God and His will, caring more about what the world thinks than what God thinks. Instead of making God big and us small, we make us big and God small. Then it switched up to a great Biblical example of someone who got it dead on: Noah.

Noah must not have cared much what the world thought. He was building an ark for a crazy long time. The nearest body of water was very far away. It hadn't rained yet, ever. People must have thought he was nuts. A good guy, yeah, but nuts! That must not have mattered to Noah; what mattered to him was what God wanted him to do, and he did it. God was number one to Noah.

I get the meaning of the verse better now. It fits in with the pretty common theme of "you know, its really not all about YOU".