10
Sep
2010
The Basin and the Towel PDF E-mail
Our text for Sunday begins a new section in the Gospel According to John.  After crying out (John 12:44) for people to believe and keep believing, the Lord Jesus took those who were His (and one pretender) aside for some private instruction.  I liken this section (chapters 13-17) to the Junior and Senior years of college.  We've made it past the things we think we know and are beginning to study the things we think we want to know.  It may be more challenging than we thought!  There are layers of lessons in these passages, the obvious ones are hard enough but the ones just under the surface are challenging as well.  This week our study will concentrate on serving as Christ served.  We often say that the past 60 years has produced a "me-first" generation.  That may be true in some respects but maybe we have just been exposed for what we really are.  Truthfully, the actions of our parents (Adam & Eve) were me-first actions and though masked over the years human beings have a track record of selfishness.  This action of the Lord Jesus to put others before Himself is downright radical.  It was His way because He is love.  This is His nature, character and sphere.  All who live in love know God for God is love.  The Lord Jesus reveals what this looks like in everyday action.  Common courtesy to others is the place to start.  "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus..."  Why is this such a struggle?
 

Comments 

 
#3 beat down — doug 2010-09-18 17:54
there gets many times when we follow Jesus and we get beat down as humans we can only take so much but I need to remember not I but Christ in me that is the challanage before me
 
 
#2 Many "worthy" excuses — Trevor McCready 2010-09-10 12:57
Faced with opportunities to serve others I often justify ignoring them because of my desire to fulfill other existing commitments and expectations. I often wonder, whether I have over-committed myself to "worthy" pursuits to such an extent that I don't feel the freedom to follow the Spirit's leading on a moment by moment basis. Christ was seemingly not encumbered with a calendar of appointments, monthly bills, debts. Christ lived life on His schedule. Should I, can I do the same?
 
 
#1 Act on Knowledge — Rhonda 2010-09-10 10:34
Perhaps because we don't know Christ. To act like Christ we need to know Him.
More time is spent on learning the secular world via TV than is spent on knowing Christ.We act upon our knowledge.
 

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