Softening
“This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.” John 1:7 Referring to John himself, John said that “he came for a witness…” (NKJV) or he came to “bear witness” (KJ). The Strongest Strongs Concordance shows in this verse that the word Witness is really the combination of the two words in the KJ - “bear witness” #3140 The word is martyreo - and means “to testify”. Through John’s life people saw The Light. Through that testimony. Have you ever seen a child clean their room where they take everything and push it to the side and make an aisle to get to their bed, dresser, closet, etc, and they say to you, “It’s clean”? That is how we are with the Lord. We are cleaned up enough to function better, sometimes just enough, and then we consider the rest “clean”. So much repenting is called for in the walk we have with Love Himself. We are drawn to want more love, to need more care, to depend more expensively on Him. Exp