Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. Jn 13:1
When the pressure’s mounting and the troubles are coming, you will either do what Pontius Pilate did and wash your hands of Jesus Christ and Christianity and wash your hands of what you thought was true, “biblically”, and like Pilate you will say, “Bring me the Basin”, and you will wash your hands and say, “ I’m not going to deal with this stuff any longer”!! Or you can simply do as what Jesus did, when He took the basin and He washed feet.
"Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, 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. – Jesus- Jn 13:12-15
Even though His world, ( In a sense) was coming down, and even though He was going through times of intensity that we will never fully understand in this world, He did not wash His hands from those disciples, from those deniers, from those betrayers, but rather he loved them, and He washed their feet.
What are we going to do when things just aren’t working out? When things are really falling apart? You will find yourself at that moment facing “Basin Theology”, either washing your hands, or washing someone’s feet. You will either be a Pontius Pilate or you will be following the example of Jesus Christ. Have we offended anyone? Or is someone offended at us and we did nothing intentionally to cause that offense, but it is there? Maybe we are offended at a friend, a brother or sister, or Leadership in the Body of Christ. The decision that we make today may affect us for the rest of our lives, even as simple as it may seem, it will surely have consequences.
-Larry Dammerman-
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This strikes me to the core...consequences of what water we choose to wash with...the world and popular persuasion...or humilty and service.
ReplyDeleteThanks Larry, this was great!
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ReplyDeleteThe more I ponder on this Thought it continues to work on me. I know I need to deal with some people this week, in the right way, and not just wash my hands of it..
ReplyDeleteThat's good Larry.......the love that Jesus has transcends the moment or the circumstance or the situation. If we could just take ourselves out of the "moment" and understand that the choices that we make in the heat of battle have more consequences then we think. If we could ask always the question...."what are the eternal consequences of this choice?" It seems to me that this is another point for getting the Word deep into our hearts so that we naturally default to the behavior and choices that are laid out for us in His Word.
ReplyDeleteWe are such a culture of the here and now. We make choices that trade a rich inheritence in eternity for temporary gratification. It's like we spend our inheritence now.
Anyway.......thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. It does make make me ponder.
Kathy