After
work, every evening when I get home, my feet are always extremely dirty. There
is always a black film glossing over my feet.
I decided
to take a shower to get off the grime. I remembered the story of Jesus at the
last supper taking off His “outer garment” and beginning to wash the feet of
His disciples. Think about it, these 12 had been through some amazing, amazing
things. Water walking, the transfiguration, the feeding of a bunch of people
and numerous healings of many different kinds of things, you name the illness.
It was quite an amazing 3 years. They knew He was the messiah, the Christ, a
king in the line of David in an earthly sense but now the King in a heavenly
universal sense too! The God who made the earth , the seasons, little atoms was
now washing their feet? What kind of God is this? What kind of humility? Doing
the job of a servant? And now they are to be servants to each other as well as
the world?
It’s the
Christmas season now, I look again at Jesus, the baby. God Himself made Himself
into a man to come close to us, to be a servant? If you think about it, we
can’t move forward with humanity if we focus on self. It’s really the best way
to relate to other people. For example, to make conversation happen, a good
strategy I actually learned from my dad is to ask other people questions. Where
do you live? Do you like it? What do you like about it? People like to tell
you. It also makes them feel like they had a good talk. Servanthood is a way to
increase love to others, in turn that increases unity. God is all about unity,
He always has been from the beginning. He’s taking us in incremental steps to
this unity. Eventually His unity will be perfect. He always makes His way, in
the end.
-Matthew
(My actual photo of feet after work)
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