Pastor Barry's  "Chapter & Verse"  Day 26

January 26;   John 13:14;   81/260(VI);   ‘Wash Their Feet’

John 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

The Lord Jesus has just finished washing His disciples’ feet.  They wore sandals back then and the roads were not paved – feet got ‘nasty.’  Jesus tells His disciples that since He washed their feet they ought to wash the feet of others.  What can that possibly mean for us today?  One meaning of Jesus’ example is that it is a privilege as a Christian to serve others.  Nothing they need done is too demeaning for us to do if it helps them establish a relationship with the Lord. Also, your feet represent where you walk, where you go in life.  Symbolically, our feet can get ‘nasty’ by where we have gone and what we have done.  As a Christian, you and I are in a unique position.  There is nothing else and no one else who can wash the feet of those who have ‘gotten dirty’ in life.  We do this by the love of God in us and the wisdom of the Word of God spoken to them by us.  As we share and live the love of Jesus Christ for them and tell them what the Lord did for them, all of the filth and dirt they may have covered themselves with, will be removed by the blood of Jesus when they accept Him as their Lord and Savior.  We must care enough to listen to their story, never judging them and then leading them to the One who forgave them before they were ever born. Jesus Christ created this universe.  He is God.  We were all filthy with sin.  Jesus did not feel that leaving heaven to come to earth as a Man and rescue us was too demeaning.  I am humbled and in awe of the Lord Jesus.  His character gives dignity to everything we have the honor to serve Him by doing.  Washing their feet, what a privilege.