John 13:8 8Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him,
“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
Can you imagine the Lord wanting to wash your feet? Peter
could not. His shocked reaction — “Lord, how can you wash my
feet!” — would probably be ours too.
I want you to notice what the Lord said to him: “Peter, if I
don’t wash your feet, you have no part with Me.” What the Lord
was actually saying to Peter was, “Peter, you cannot flow
together with Me, you cannot walk together with Me in
ministry, in service and in effectiveness, if you don’t let Me
wash your feet.” So Peter said, “Lord, [wash] not my feet
only, but also my hands and my head!” (John 13:9)
But Jesus answered him saying, “He who is bathed needs only
to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean…”
(John 13:10)
Once we have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are
bathed all over, and cleansed by His blood once and for all
eternity! His blood has perfected us forever (Hebrews 10:14),
and we only need to wash our feet because we walk in the world
and our feet pick up dust and dirt, causing us to stumble.
So how is Jesus washing our feet today? Ephesians 5:25–26
tells us that “Christ also loved the church and gave Himself
for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the
washing of water by the Word”.
We, the church, are cleansed with the washing of water by the
Word. The more we come under anointed teaching that unveils
Christ through the Word, the more the cleansing goes on. And
as our feet are washed, instead of stumbling, we will be
walking and even running!
Today, though high and lifted up in heaven, Jesus is dressed
in a robe with a golden girdle around his chest. (Revelation
1:13) Like a servant who uses his girdle as a towel to serve,
Jesus wants us to sit down and let Him serve us — by washing
our feet with a deeper revelation of Himself through His Word.
Beloved, this is what gives us victory in our daily walk!
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment