Luke 7:24b

“What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?”

John the Baptist was discouraged and tired. He had put his life and his reputation on the line for Jesus, and now he was imprisoned by Herod. If Jesus was so powerful, then why was he in languishing in prison? Though Jesus will some day judge the Herods of the world, He first came as the Lamb of God to pay for our sins. That meant that judgment has not yet come. Sometimes we feel more like reeds swaying in the wind than like courageous prophets like John. But out of love for our Lord and for the nations, we must stand firm until the Day of Judgment.