Today a short devotion from Max Lucdo’s book titled “God is with you every day.”
It’s about grace. No, not the grace shown by a ballet dancer, the grace only a grandpa can show his grandchild or our Lord displayed repeatedly.
The kind of grace we humans have misplaced, but we must rediscover if we are going to heal our ugly world.
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.” John 13:17
Lord, you expect me to wash his feet and let him go?
Most people don’t want to. They use the villain’s photo as a dart target. Their Vesuvius blows up every now and again. Sending hate air born, polluting, and stinking the world. Most people keep a pot of anger on a low boil.
But you aren’t “most people.” Grace has happened to you. Look at your feet, they are wet, grace soaked. Your toes and arches and heels have felt the cool basin of God’s grace. Jesus has washed the grimiest parts of your life. He didn’t bypass you and carry the basin towards someone else. If grace were a wheat field, he’s bequeathed you the state of Kansas. Can’t you share your grace with others?
“Since I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you.” John 13:14
To accept grace is to accept the vow to give it.
I am Steve Sauder
