Is there anything you wouldn’t do?    

Read: John 13:3-20 NASB – Jesus, knowing that the Father had – Bible Gateway

“If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John 13:14 NASB

On the night Jesus was betrayed, He taught us the meaning of servanthood. Jesus was celebrating the Passover for the last time with His disciples before His crucifixion. When no one took the initiative to do what was customary in that day, to wash the feet of those entering the home, Jesus responded. His twelve disciples never gave it a thought, it wasn’t their home, but a room granted them for the occasion. It was the servant’s job of the home to perform this duty. Since it wasn’t their home and they weren’t servants, the disciples inferred, not my job. But the Lord showed them, it was their job, it’s our job.

Pride, indifference, laziness, lack of urgency, and unawareness are all factors in reasoning, not my job. Paying more attention to ourselves than to those around us causes us not to see peoples’ needs that are right in front of us. How many times have you said to yourself, ‘someone should do something about this?’ and then pass it by. Yes, maybe it’s none of your business, but if it’s needed or urgent and the right thing to do within reason, we should do it. There is also a tendency to assume that some jobs are just beneath us, and we wouldn’t want to be seen doing them. Jesus washed the disciples’ dirty feet. All the disciples saw it, John wrote about it, and we read it. All the world now knows, and it was done to teach us all.

So, is there anything you wouldn’t do as a courtesy or to help someone in need? Outside of it being shady or illegal, there shouldn’t be. May we follow Jesus’ example and take up jobs that aren’t our jobs, but in realty are our jobs. Happy serving!