Too many thoughts...

I am yet again ashamed.
A thought passed through which led me to Matthew 3:4 which simply says, "Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey."
Now get this picture in your head. John, one of the great people of the New Testament, lived in the desert preaching. He was a rather scraggly guy from living in the desert, he apparently had nothing to even clothe himself with asside from what was in the desert, aka camels. So he made hiimself a garment to cover himself with camel's hair and a belt. And it says "his food was locusts and wild honey," not to be confused with say, that he ATE locusts and wild honey. The difference lies in the continuity. He didn't eat them once or twice, that's simply WHAT he ate, period. Could you survive by CHOOSING to live in the desert and only eat locusts and wild honey? I mean really, would you EVER eat essentially, very large grasshoppers? And what else? Oh, honey. Not only that, but wild honey. And where does honey come from? Bees. Lots and lots of bees. And John certainly didn't have any fancy net to drape over his head and thick clothes to keep from getting stung. He wore as they say, A garment of camel's hair. Not exactly sufficient to keep the bees out. So half his diet came from a rather hazardous task of retrieving honey from bees.
Now also, many say that John had dreadlocks. Kind of a weird thing, but yes. Dreadlocks are what happens to hair when it's left uncared for for a LONG period of time. So we've got this crazy dude with dreads living in the desert, eating bugs and stealing from bees and wearing some form of clothing made of camel's hair.
This is what it means to follow Christ. This guy didn't even HAVE Christ to follow! He was preparing the Way.
Would you eat bugs and get stung by bees and live in a desert for Christ? The next time you look in the mirror picture this scraggly, disgusting, content, hopeful saint. What did he have that you don't? How was this man content in the desert with nothing? Why do we still seek contentment in other things? Lord give us John's fiery passion for You.