 First, he became close to God. It was evident from John's life he was more in touch with God than he was with the world. His manner of dress, his lifestyle, his preaching were not in style or vogue with the society of the day. Matthew 3.3 tells us his raiment was that of camel's hair. He wore a leather girdle about him, quite different from the priestly robes and silk and golden embroidery. His diet consisted of wild locusts and honey. I joke it's the first keto diet recorded in the Bible. But yet John never complained.