Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 And supper being ended,[a] the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, 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…
12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. John 13 (Selected Verses)
A fellow student at Heidelberg College washed my feet 38 years ago. He wasn’t even a close friend, just in passing. I can see his face, but I can’t remember his name. I’m not even sure why I remembered that recently, what triggered the memory.
I just remember that we were hanging out in my room, talking. Something was bothering me. I can’t even guess as to what it was. I just recall that, after listening to me, he asked me to wait. He’d be right back.
Minutes later, he returned with a towel and a bowl of water. He asked me to sit. I did. Then he knelt down to remove my shoes and socks. I began to protest, but he simply looked at me, maybe said something, and I let him wash my feet.
After he finished, he simply left. I believe I just sat there for a time before doing…anything.
After some thought and reading John 13, I have several, brief thoughts to share with you.
- He did this for me despite not being a close friend. That’s the kind of servant attitude Jesus was trying to teach His disciples.
- We often speak metaphorically in terms of “washing people’s feet.” What if we literally did that for people to comfort them, sooth them?
- I sometimes rub my wife’s feet with lotion when they are giving her pain. Could we do that or wash the feet of people we don’t know well?
- Many people are Biblically illiterate and may not understand the Biblical origin, but would that have any less of an impact? If they don’t know the reference, that might be a great opportunity to tell them the story.
- I’m nowhere near being the biggest blogger on the web. I often wonder if I do anyone any good. Just like I can’t remember my passing friend’s name, he likely hasn’t thought of it in decades and never will again. He may even be dead now. But his act is still remembered by me.
And now by you…
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. 
For citizens of the 21st Century, how is the that we stare skyward in aboriginal awe at an admittedly large ball of burning gasses and a huge rock?
For example, do agencies like the Atomic Energy Commission and National Cancer Institute conduct possibly terminal experiments on their own citizens without their knowledge – including the unborn – in a God-fearing country? (Correct Answer: No)
1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 
I still love The United States of America for what it did in WW II and our good people. But there’s a lot in our history to be ashamed of. Our government has more and more been populated by people who have done horrible and cruel things to populations around the world and even to our fellow countrymen. They still do.
Like me not so many years ago, he’s a true believer in the ol’ Red, White, & Blue. Thanks to the internet, people speaking out, and books being published, a lot of skeletons are being dragged out of our national closet. See my recent series, “Pirates of the Sacred Spiral,” which started last June 22.
jet fuel – essentially kerosene – is 750F? High heat vulnerability of structural steel? From Wikipedia – 
Essentially, if your world view is threatened severely enough, your reaction can range from extreme stress and emotional problems as you come to grips or simple and compete denial.
