My daughter did a presentation from when she went to Africa on a mission trip at a church in our community that practices foot-washing. She did a good job, of course! They had communion and a foot washing service. They only do those (communion and foot washing) once a year and it happened to be the Sunday we were there. We could have left as some people did that didn't want to participate, but my daughter and I decided to stay. We participated in communion, but not the foot washing portion of the service. I had never been to a foot washing service before. The pastor did a really good job explaining about foot washing. I knew it was about being a servant, but it is about more than that. It is about showing love and care to the fellow members of your church. The women do it for each other on one side of the church and the men do it for each other on the other side. It inspired me. God has commanded us to love each other. Of course, I knew that, but do we show it to each other? Do we genuinely feel love towards our brothers and sisters in Christ in our church? I know that I don't near as much as I should! This also comes at a time when I am praying for a better attitude with my church members and my attitude towards church. What if there was someone that a person didn't really care for or had negative thoughts about across from them and they had to wash their feet? I believe that God would humble the person and work on the person to fix the relationship. God really spoke to me through this. I never realized before how much God would speak through that type of serviceable how God would use it to humble me.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11 KJV)
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (John 15:9 KJV)
That is a big command....to love as He loved us. Do we really fully understand the depth of that love? Do we even fully understand how to love as He loved?
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