Emphasis Preaching Journal

It would have been easy for John the Baptist to fool himself into believing that he was, in fact, more important than the One whose way he had been sent to prepare. His response to the coming of Christ is a study in humility. Such cannot be said of a woman who once encountered the famous Oxford scholar, C. S. Lewis, on a passenger train. Lewis had been on a walking tour and, rushing to catch the last train back, had come into his car looking disheveled and unkempt.