WEDNESDAY MANNA 05 JUNE ‘24

Dr. Daniel O. C. | Jun 05, 2024

“LET YOUR SERVICE TO GOD BE MARKED WITH HUMILITY!”

Saints of God Most High, hear God’s word for you today:

“You call me ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because I am. Now if I, the Lord and Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also should wash each other’s feet. For I have set you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you…” (John 13:13-16)

You call Me the Teacher, Master and the Lord, and you are right in doing so, for that is what I am, declares Adonai Yeshua! If I then, your Lord, Teacher and Master have washed your feet, you ought to do the same, it is your duty, you are under obligation, you owe it to wash one another’s feet.

For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do in your turn what I have done to you. I assure you, most solemnly, I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to the one who sent him.

A SERVANT HEART ATTITUDE

Anyone who wants to be used of God, as a leader must possess a servant heart.
Ordinarily the cleansing of feet was done before the meal by the lowest ranking servant in the Jewish household.

But none of the disciples were willing to assure this posture or duty, therefore Jesus the Son of the Living God rose from the supper to wash the feet of the disciples.

This action of Jesus actually dramatizes symbolically what His humility would mean redemptively and what our humility would mean in terms of the believers’ fellowship.

Peter refused to be washed but Jesus said, “If I do not wash your feet you are not my partner.” (Vs 12-15) Emphasis: – the action of Christ is an example of the dignity and responsibility of Christian reciprocal servitude.

The act was never taken by the church as a ritual and as such we do not need to keep it as a ritual (1 Timothy 5:10). Only here is its practice mentioned and the devout widows did it for hospitality.

THE EARLY CHURCH

In the early church it did become a custom, and also in A.D.694 at the Synod of Toledo, it was officially prescribed. But today most of the evangelical churches do not practice it because it was not commanded in the Bible and not developed in the New Testament too.

Still the lesson of feet washing by Jesus must be well accepted with its real meaning. Jesus washing the feet signifies that, there is no service too costly or too humiliating to be performed for another child of God.

It is the love of God that will lead or compel an individual to serve.

LET US SERVE ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE, SINCERITY AND HUMILITY

Shalom and good morning.
Dr. Daniel O. C.