We are simply witnesses, we are not the light

God sent a man, John the Baptist, 1:6 NLT

to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. 1:7

John himself was not the light; but he was simply a witness to tell about the light. 1:8

God sent a man - it is a man that God uses to tell about the light. God is sending men today to tell people about the light.

The men are not the light themselves - God uses us to tell others, He uses us sometimes in miraculous ways. Our place is not to glory in this, it is to glory in the light. We are not to be puffed up thinking that their is any life in us or anything that has come from us to make this happen. It is the life that is in Him that we draw on that enables miracles, that enable signs, that enables us to have a testimony.

We are simply a witness - we are light reflectors, we are branches in the vine. We are messengers but not the King himself. It is a simple thing that we are witnesses.