John the Baptist had a tremendous ministry and mandate bestowed on him from God. He came to prepare the way of the LORD and point out the Lamb of God to Israel. However we never read about John himself following Jesus, yet some of his disciples did. John kept on with his ministry, then being sent to prison he doubted his past preaching and prophecies and eventually lost his life. If we put ministry before the relationship with the Lamb of God we will find ourselves in dark places of confusion, obscurity, self-doubt. Ministry can never replace the relationship. We must always follow the Lamb. Jesus came to restore our relationship with God. We need to be alone with God, we need to date Him. Anything spiritually significant happens in the alone time with God. When we spend time alone with God we will have God discovery and once we have a God discovery we will have a self-discovery.