A Servant's Heart

This is my calling...to be a servant.

In today's society, we can go to a spa or salon, pay $25-$50 to be pampered for thirty minutes while someone massages our heels, toes, and ankles, moistures and trims our cuticles, and finishes the pedicure with a nice coat of nail polish. Relatively speaking, the feet are not too much cleaner than when the pedicure began and

John 13 portrays the day in which Jesus washed His disciples feet. Think about the culture when John writes. Men would walk miles and miles every day in sandles that barely cover their feet. Dirt and germs would cultivate their feet. Jesus, the Savior who would be betrayed several hours later, was not giving these men a pedicure, but rather cleaning one of the dirtiest parts of their body as a symbol of giving as a true servant should.

Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless Savior humbled himself to wash His disciples feet in order to show us that being a servant is important and critical part of our efforts toward being more Christ-like, Christians.

If people's physical needs are not met, how can their spiritual needs be met?

Tonight, along side several other believers, we are going to do exactly this...serve a family in need. Not for our own praise or admoration, but to the glory and honor of our Lord Jesus Christ. Prayfully and optimistically desiring to rekindle old relationships with fellow believers and ultimately Jesus Christ.