MADE IN HEAVEN BUT CHANGED IN TIME-PART 2

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.- John 1:6-7(emphasis added)

The aspect of the sacrifice of John in order to remain the same as heaven intended, was that he left home to stay in the wilderness eating locust and wild honey. He made all those sacrifices just to ensure that he arrived ,in as raw a state, as heaven ordained him to be.

The Bible said, he stayed in the wilderness, separate from home  and family comforts. If he had stayed in his father's house, he would have become a priest at best. He was surrounded by Priests, I am sure, he was the odd ball in the household. His experiences and the training he needed, would be different from those around him. The training of a priest and a prophet are vastly different.

Next He ate Locust and WILD honey. I wondered why the bible choose to state clearly that he ate wild honey. I believe that the writer wanted to emphasize that the source of his food was not from home or from the people. You see, Priests are usually feed from the sacrifices, brought from the people. The depended on the people to be sustained as they ministered but not John. His sustenance was not what they people brought, it was wild, as found in nature.

Child of God, sometimes it is better to feast on "locust and wild honey"than to compromise our stand on the sumptuous meals waived before us to make us compromise our stand or change our convictions. Like Daniel, who would rather eat vegetables, beans and drink water than feed on a feast fit for a king, John choose the path that remains unpopular.

 He so resolved and made decisions to remain unchanged by the tide of human opinion, that even his fashion sense did not swing with the latest fashion of the day. He still wore camel skin and belt.

The Bible warns not to be conformed to this world, all this is, so that we would achieve our heavenly ordination.

May heaven say of us " there was a man/woman sent from God;..... the SAME CAME" unadulterated, unchanged by the pressures of peer and foe. 

May God help us stay on course in our calling in God!