| My dishes are done! I wish I could take credit...but it was Fanny Pack Man to the rescue! What an amazing gift...I was exceedingly grumpy even after a wonderful afternoon visiting friends because I have not slept very well in a few days. The baby has been pushing on some nerve endings which has been--uncomfortable and at times painful. My sweetie told me to go to bed around 8:00, and when I woke up suddenly around midnight (bad dream--Nikki are you sure you're okay????), he was doing the dishes! He hates doing dishes, so it was a true "servant's heart" that motivated him to do it! He is such an amazing man.
"Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand." Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you." For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all clean." When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them." John 13:3-17
Serving each other means doing the dirty work, not putting yourself on some kind of super-spiritual pedastel, but being an example of Love (not worldly love, but God's kind of Love) to ALL people. Even those who you know are about to betray you...
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Tomorrow starts our new marketing campaign for our business. Please keep us in prayer during this time, as our only goal is to be obedient to the LORD in letting this business be a ministry tool used for HIS glory alone.
G'night!
~Liz |
