Take a look at your feet. Go ahead, take a good look. What do they look like? Are they long and narrow or short and wide? Do you have flat feet or high arches? Feet are the primary mode of transportation for a lot of us. We have put many miles on our feet.
Many of us are embarrassed of our feet. They are not as soft as when we were young, so we hide them in shoes and slide them in slippers. We don’t want anyone to touch them let alone notice them.
John 13:1-17 is the story of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet. How would you react if the savior wanted to wash your feet? Would you feel embarrassed, ashamed at how rough they are? Would you resist as Peter did, not wanting Jesus to lower himself to such a position?
It’s ok to acknowledge that Jesus is better than that. It is not wrong to say, “You should not be washing my feet, but I should be washing yours.” It is when we see how undeserving we are of God’s touch, and yet acknowledge it’s the only way to be clean, that we will understand what he is doing. Jesus washing feet, pointed to the cross where he washed us clean of our sins.
While on the cross; seeing every rough road we have traveled, every dirty thought and deed, each and every mess we created and then stepped in, Jesus chose to die washing us white as snow. All he asks is that we treat the world as he treated us, so that they may know him too.
Read the entire passage on Biblegateway John 13:1-17
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