Elementary truth that hit me radically deeply last night. The only thing that can separate us from God is our sin. And as a Christian, Jesus' blood covers that sin, and therefore is our bridge back to being connected to God. It just hit me in such a way that i just had to share it. Maybe the way that is written speaks to you, maybe it doesnt, but that is how it hit me and when i think in that way, i know that this is why JESUS CHRIST is the most important in my life!
That being said, i find God has answered my plea to return to the place where HE is enough and i do not rely on a man or a job or a friend to provide the love and affirmation i desire and, yes, need. Recently i had lost my focus from about a month ago where i was completely complete in Christ. Somewhere along the way i remembered the world and lost sight of the only One who matters. God had the grace and mercy to bring back to feeling whole in Him. Praise Him for that! i pray to never go back to depending on anything but the One who created me for the affirmation and love that i require. Yes, it is nice to have love and affirmation from others, but what does it matter if the whole world loves me and Jesus is not in me?(Matthew 16:26 Mark 8:36 Luke 9:25) From now on, i resolve and pray to live fully relying on God for my purpose and worth!
Another thing that hit me, when thinking about the feet-washing, was the symbolism for the time period. They walked everywhere. Their feet were dirty. These things are pretty standard. But what about those commands about kicking the dust off your feet when you left an "evil" town or city? If you did not get that city's dust/dirt (analogy for sin?) off your feet where you accountable for that sin? Or even if you did shake it off, you were not COMPLETELY free from it until you washed your feet. Then Jesus washed their feet. Showing that HE is the one who wipes away the sin, the bad places you have been (sin, PAST in general). We may have walked on roads we knew were dirty and continued in them, or didn't know they were sin, or we knew they were dirty and ran right out of them. For all of these, Jesus washed our feet. He took away those sins. Washed. Clean. Humbling. Serving. And that we should do this for one another, to help each other get over our past, to be cleaned after being in the dirt (dark/sin). This could be an analogy for encouraging and building one another up, as well as keeping accountable.
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