Washing Feet

How awesome is God? To be honest with you, I don't think I could fully describe the answer that the question deserves. He is indeed indescribable! I'm getting excited about another opportunity that God has given me to preach at the prison tonight. After the amazing service that we had Wednesday night, I have been spending most of the morning wondering what God has in store for those who come together tonight. I want to ask you once again to pray for the service. There will be many in attendance tonight who do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior. Please pray that there would be an abundance of freedom for the gospel to be proclaimed. Pray that God would use this unworthy vessel to "preach the word." How dependant I am upon Him. I praise Him for the calling that He has laid upon me. The message that He has put on my heart comes from John 13. It is one of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible! God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, kneels before those disciples who have been with Him for so long. They have seen Him perform miracles beyond comprehension and explanation. They have heard Him preach and witnessed His sinless life. Yet, He gets on those perfect knees before them and washes their feet! What wondrous love! The most profound part of the entire event is not that He put His holy hands upon the dirty feet of men, but that He put His holy hands upon the feet of the one who would betray Him, Judas Iscariot. Jesus is so loving that He was willing to clean the feet which would, in only a matter of moments, be used to bring His accusers to capture Him. How much more then, should we be willing to serve in humility before our own enemies? If God in the flesh was willing to humble Himself (Php. 2:7), what should we be willing to do? God is calling those who have called upon His name to reach out into a world full of those who would betray and persecute us, so that we might "show" them the love of Christ which lives within us. I have had to take inventory of my own life because of the power of this passage. What am I holding back from God? Who, or what group am I unwilling to go to as His servant? Am I willing to wash the feet of those who despise me? Please pray for those prisoner's tonight. Pray that they will see the love that Christ as for them, and that they will accept that love and the salvation that comes through it.