Lord, Make Me A Servant

TODAY: Find a map of Jerusalem. Locate the places where Jesus spent these critical last days. Try to visualize what the city was like 2,000 years ago. How would you have responded to the spectacle of this teacher leading his followers through the bustle? How would you have responded when you saw Jesus washing the feet of his disciples? Take some time to contemplate how you should spend today.

Jesus washed Judas' feet.

Judas was to betray Him. Jesus in fact knew that Judas had already betrayed him. But on His last night on earth, when the Lord made Himself the lowest servant, He washed Judas' feet.

It is easy to love and serve those who love us, those who look like us and worship like us. But how do we serve those who are different? How do we serve those who hate us and would destroy our very lives? Can we be like Jesus and serve them just as we serve those whom we love?

On Jesus' last night on earth, He celebrated a Passover Feast. His Jewish disciples recounted and celebrated the deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt by the hand of God. They had no idea that in three days they would again receive deliverance by the hand of God. This time, however, it would be deliverance from condemnation, and it would be forever.

Forever. Once we take it, once we ask Jesus to wash us, our "feet, our hands and head as well," we know the truth, and are blessed by it. Knowing that, how can we not wash the feet of those who don't?

— Melanie Snyder

Courtesy of The Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist