In John 13:1-15 you’ll find the story of Jesus washing his disciple’s feet. In those days, only servants washed the feet of visitors to the home. Consider what a dirty, filthy job this was. Everyone wearing sandals walking unpaved roads. The same roads that animals walked. I’ll leave that to your imagination.

And yet Jesus took up the towel and basin and lovingly washed the feet of his disciples. Afterwards, in verse 14, Jesus tells his disciples, “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.”

Later in the same chapter of John, verses 34-35, Jesus says, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Of course, here in America, the practice of washing feet isn’t in our daily repertoire. But serving each other even in the most humbling of manner needs to be.

In these tumultuous times, where disagreements abound, the unknown hounds us and fear is constantly at our doorstep, how can we “wash each other’s feet”?

How can we love each other so people will know we are Christ’s disciples?

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