"Lord, dost thou wash my feet?"

We talked about feet in class this week. Yup...feet.

When you think about feet, you  typically think about nastiness. Something you would not want to touch. Something that's not clean and nice-smelling. Right? That's how I feel, anyways.

Now think back to when Jesus Christ was alive. People walked for transportation, and they typically wore some sort of sandals that didn't cover their feet completely. They were also walking through sewage, trash, and whatever else people put into the streets. I'm sure that their feet were way nastier than the typical American who wears shoes all day. The worst we might have to deal with today is sweaty feet.

It was the job of lower servants to wash people's feet.

In John chapter 13, Jesus Christ, the master, begins to wash his followers' feet.

5 After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Some of the disciples are okay with it, but Simon Peter isn't about to let the Lord near his nasty feet. He thinks that would be too commonplace and lowly a job for the Son of God.

6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

Jesus gives us everything. He loves us from what He gives us, not what He gets from us. We have to be willing to bare our soul to Jesus and let Him engage with our innermost, dirtiest parts. Because He descended below all things, He is humble and understanding enough to see us at our worst and still love us because He has given us everything.

CS Lewis said: "Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has — by what I call "good infection." Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."

The Gift has already been given, and if we accept it, we can become a little Christ.