DAY_2 Separation of the Waters

“I am not the Messiah”

Genesis 1:6-8, John 1:19-23

On the second day of Creation, Genesis describes God separating the waters of the sea from the waters of the sky. In other words, there is a distinction being made between what’s above and what’s below. On the “second day” in John 1:19-28, we see John the Baptist claim that he is not the Christ. He even says that he simply “baptizes with WATER” but that there is one above him he cannot reach. 

“He didn’t fail to confess this.” That’s a strange but important point to make. John the Baptist was causing a lot of commotion. He was making quite a “splash” with the religious leaders of the day. He was loud, larger than life, and lit with a fire of revival.  I’ve always imagined John as a black baptist preacher dunking people in the county river.

But even with throngs of people flocking to the river’s edge to see this spectacle, the Baptist didn’t make it about himself. John let the Billy Graham sized crowds know there was someone greater on the way! All he had was water, but there was something greater; something above all of their heads!