God will use each of us like he used John and Jesus. It s about decreasing and increasing. Finally, when Jesus received word that John had lost his head, he withdrew in a boat to a lonely place. That says a lot about Jesus. He grieved the forerunner s loss in love.
None born among women are greater.
So it is Jesus, not John who really shows us how to exit with grace. We may say we re ready for it, but few of us do it with grace. We re too kin to John. A truly graceful surrender of any kind of status, form any stage in life, is a hard act to perform. But here I am making the attempt.