Good Morning!! Just before the Last Supper, the night before His death, Jesus needed to make a point to His disciples: You need to be sacrificial servants.
So He took out the cloth and the wash basin and washed the grimy feet
of His followers. It was power and symbolic. A real attention getter:
the "hay-maker" that made His lecture a knock out. Washing feet? Yes, it
was the perfect conclusion to the message that He was communicating to
His often slow disciples.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anothers' feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.—John 13:14-17 (NIV)
Sometimes that Christian "faith" seems too theoretical, and not nearly enough actual. Practical Christianity, has been put in a symbolic box,...particularly the things that require sacrifice and suffering. But again, Christ's suffering and our suffering are a shared experience. His sacrificial service to us, cost Him His life. Our sacrificial service to each other and the world, is also costly. But it's the real deal! And suffering as servants brings about a freedom because it's actually an extension of who we really are,...in Jesus.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anothers' feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.—John 13:14-17 (NIV)
Sometimes that Christian "faith" seems too theoretical, and not nearly enough actual. Practical Christianity, has been put in a symbolic box,...particularly the things that require sacrifice and suffering. But again, Christ's suffering and our suffering are a shared experience. His sacrificial service to us, cost Him His life. Our sacrificial service to each other and the world, is also costly. But it's the real deal! And suffering as servants brings about a freedom because it's actually an extension of who we really are,...in Jesus.
Christ's actions weren’t just symbolic,...the foot washing was authentic, an extension of who Jesus really is
O' Lord, we don't want to live in the theoretical. Jesus, we
believe
that we are in You, and that You are in us. Live through us today as
sacrificial servants, in a practical way. May this be another experience
that we can share together that will add unity to our relationship as we
love the world together. Amen.
" God is not only able to heal our hurts,...but the hurts we've caused."
" God is not only able to heal our hurts,...but the hurts we've caused."
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