Would you humble yourself enough to wash the Master's feet?

Question

In an upstairs room a parable is just about to come alive; and while they bicker about who is best, with a painful glance He'll silently rise; their Savior's servant must show them how through the will of the water and the tenderness of the "towel." The call is to community, the improverished power that sets the soul free. In humility you take the vow that day after day you must take up the basin and the towel. In any ordinary place; in any ordinary day, the parable can live again when one will kneel and one will yield. Our Savior's servant will show us how with through the will of the water and the tenderness of the towel. by the fragile bridge of the servant's vow, we take up the basin and the towel. In Humility we take the vow that day after day we must take up the basin and the towel.

Answer 1

Yes and beautifully put!

Shalom
dbd

Answer 2

"Would you humble yourself enough to wash the Master's feet? "

You mean wash the feet of Jesus? That doesn't take much humility. That would be a privelage that Christians would probably fight over to be the one honored to perform such a task.

No, what requires humility is to do what it says in this passage.

"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Philippians 2:3

It takes a lot more humility to not only say "Thy will be done" but to say in the company of your brethren in Christ "not my will be done".

For as it is written:

"And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Luke 9:23

And as the passage from Philippians continued..."Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8

Answer 3

Yes. I would. But....Remember........

Matthew 20:20-28

Believers like to talk about Jesus as Lord, as Master, and especially as Savior, but rarely is He mentioned as “Jesus the Servant.” Yet describing His own mission, Christ said, “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (v. 28). He entered the world to offer Himself for the Father’s purpose and mankind’s need.
The Cross was the ultimate sacrifice for others. Every human is born into slavery, a captive of sin. Jesus’ death paid the ransom, purchasing our freedom with His blood. Consider what that means: Jesus voluntarily exchanged His glory for flesh because only as a human could He experience sin—He didn’t break God’s laws, but He allowed His purity to be violated by our transgressions. In fact, God made Jesus “who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf” so that we could gain freedom from our captivity (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus took on Himself every bit of sin — past, present, and future — committed by humanity. Our sinless Savior suddenly and painfully felt the burden of guilt, the weight of a tarnished soul, and a wretched separation from His Father. He suffered the injustice of dying for our sin in order that God’s holiness and our imperfection could be reconciled. Jesus was the Father’s servant, agreeing to an atonement plan that made Him a sacrifice.
Jesus is your servant as well. He humbly endured the punishment you deserved. To receive the benefit of His sacrifice, you need only ask His forgiveness and receive Him into your life. Then you, too, can know the servant, Jesus, as Savior and Lord!

Answer 4

If you were truly "humble", would you even consider yourself worthy of washing the "Master's feet"?

Caring for others as an act of "humility" is repressed aggression. If you truly consider someone is better than you, then it is with pride that you accept the opportunity to care for that person. If one must consider caring for others as an act of "humility", then one is secretly recognizing that those whom one cares for are -not- better than one's self.

If one would care for the poor, one must live with the poor and share in their fate, while helping them as best one can.

Isn't this why Jesus advised the rich young noble to give away all he has and follow in the steps of Jesus, ministering to those in need? As He said, harder for a camel to climb through the eye of a needle than the rich to enter heaven.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

It's not my intention to be the odd man out here, but I don't think I could bring myself to do that.
I am being really honest with you guys here (Lord knows why) but I don't think I would either want my feet washed by anyone or wash anyone else's feet (exception being post surgery) for the sake of simple independence. If you can, then you should wash your own feet.
I don't mean to offend you.
Thanks for listening.

Answer 7

The term "Master" reminds me of southern plantation owners and their slaves. Beneath the moon, the loony goon and his raccoon will spoon in June, whils't in his jowl, he clutcheth a towel, he bows and vows, heralding a few bow-wows, and thees and Thous, at nauseum, and prayeth there be no toe jam. Yes, pathetic.

Answer 8

Definitely.

Answer 9

I would humble myself to wash my Savior's feet. I would give my right arm to wash Jesus's feet. I would wash God's feet for that matter if I was asked. Day in and day out.

Answer 10

I am not humble to wash other people's feet. However, there are still many things we can do as mentioned in the bible such as helping the hunger and sick people, donate to the church, preaching gospel, etc.