Saturday, June 25, 2022
This is the Servant-Slave’s view
through the weeds,
near the dirt.
Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the Lord your God disciplines you.
John 13:15
For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
Words of Grace For Today
Jesus hosts the disciples for his last supper, and provides for them as a good servant/slave. He washes their feet, dusty from the day walking with sandals (socks were not yet a thing, nor boots the common footwear, yet, oh, you say it’s shoes, ok. Still back then it was sandals for everyone). At the end of the day one’s feet would be just a tad, shall we say, stinking yucky dirty. So the one who washed feet was not just a small bowl and cloth routine. It meant a lot of stinking, really stinking, dirt and grime. It’s no small job, and it’s not a pleasant one.
Then Jesus continues: I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. So we are to serve others, even doing the most servant/slave kind of service even if it just plain stinks.
We certainly are not to be the one’s who set our discipline over others, lording it over them, thinking that our example can be set before them and either by punishment or carrots of encouragement we can change others to be better.
Our work is to be the one’s who make others stink less by our work. We leave the ‘making others aware of their failures’ to God.
And we understand that God will discipline us to put us back in line. (If we can even find a line to be in, serving others needs.)
A great day: finding our way out of being lord over others and into being servant/slave for others.
Great joy. (May not seem like it, but when you give it a go, you find the servant/slave for Christ is always living a better life than any rich, powerful, or famous master.)
Enjoy, today as well as every other day.