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By Dawn Winston
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John 13:14-16 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Jesus was not above the lowliest of service. Driving around Chicago with our younger, prim and proper, preppie sister, my brother stopped in front of a drunk sleeping in the road,literally in the gutter, and told her, “Why don’t you get out and shake that man’s hand?” Why don’t we? Why don’t we embrace the wino’s among us? What would Jesus do?
My family tracked down the brother of a friend who also was living in Las Vegas. He was living on the streets and difficult to hunt down. We had him over for dinner and listened to his amazing often shocking stories of crimes and alcoholism, with his pure childlike innocence. It became an honor to have him around. All we did was provide dinners, church trips, some necessities and our ears. He was not a changed man, but I pray our little offerings were example of Jesus enough for something some day.
My elderly father was in the local hospital in a very wealthy neighborhood, unconscious and very ill. I walked in and saw his gorgeous Jewish teen nurse’s aide washing him with a cloth. She didn’t seem to notice me; we said nothing to each other. She was fully engrossed, as if in prayer. Gentle and stunning inside and out, she was Jesus to my silent atheist father. She knew deeply, intuitively, how to serve ,how to wash my father’s worn, old feet.
To walk like Jesus we must get down to do the dirty work of service. For us to follow Jesus and be an example of his love we must encounter and welcome the undesirables that in some capacity we ourselves are.
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