What does it mean to be used by God? This question is something that I have pondered on a lot recently. Just a glance at the headlines tells me that things are not right with the world. With starving children all over and the terrible weather we have been having I can't help but think that Jesus is coming again soon. But the question that still rings in my ears is: How do I share my faith? In a world that just doesn't seem to want to hear about it, how do I go about sharing Jesus with people.
As someone who has had six months of Bible Worker experience, I realize that it is no easy thing to share the love of Jesus! In a post-modern age where whatever feels right must be right, it just doesn't come that naturally to share Jesus. When I was a little younger I seemed to have a better time sharing Him with those around me. I mean, after all, when one spends a lot of time with Him, one can't help but share Him.
I think of Jesus that night before His execution. It was probably a hot evening and everyone crowded into that upstairs room with their dusty feet. Twelve men all gather around the table with one question on their mind: Who is going to wash my feet. Where's the servant? Well, I'm certainly not going to was their feet. Each one not wanting to do the most humiliating job. Then enters the Master Himself, and one of the most amazing displays of love is played out in that room. When no one else wanted to "stoop" down to the level of a Servant we see the Lord and Creator of the whole universe, strip down to His waist and gird Himself with a towel and grab the pitcher of water and the basin, and pour water on those dirty dusty feet and wash them. What a an Example! The whole idea of Master becoming Servant blows my mind. Check out the Words of Jesus after He has washed their feet!
13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
John 13:13-17
Jesus wants us to share His love with those around us, and this oftentimes means that we may have to humiliate ourselves to others, but that is what our Master has shown us!
As I started writing this blog Jesus answered my very question by what happened to Him at the Last Supper. He is the example, and now my prayer for me and for anyone reading this is that we will be servants for our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus says it best in John 13:35 " By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
