What would you do if you knew you literally had just hours to live? How would you spend your time if ahead lay betrayal, beatings, and a horrendous, painful death on the cross?
Jesus knew all this, yet what did He do at this moment?
He washed feet.
Taking off his outer clothing, pouring water into a basin, he “began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.” (John 13:4 NKJV).
He washed feet.
The King of the Universe, Creator of all things, knelt down and washed feet. With a horrific death just hours away, Jesus washed his disciples filthy, dusty, callused feet.
How humiliating! Yet how like Jesus. This was how Jesus had always lived his life, so why not here at the very end?
Matthew 20:28 tells us Jesus “did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Jesus’ life was a life of service, of self-sacrifice, and He calls us to follow His example. Philippians 2:5 tells us to “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus…”
This Easter weekend, as we remember Jesus’ gift to us in dying on the Cross for our sin and celebrate His resurrection with its promise of a better tomorrow, let us also remember the example He set of service to others. Let’s make service to others the center of our lives too and determine, in all that we do, to do what Jesus did.
He washed feet.