FCA 4 Years Ago

 

I was looking through my files and found this FCA topic from four years ago.  It is just as prevalent today as it was then….perhaps even moreso.

 

Jesus was aware that His death was looming.

 

He knew He was going to be betrayed.

 

He had declared that He would rise from the dead, and yet people either didn’t believe, or they didn’t understand, the words that He was saying.

 

Might be time to pack it up and try the mission another time, right?

 

Wrong.

 

John 13 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

 

The reason that Jesus responses are so shocking is that we truly don’t understand who He really is or what is heart is.

 

And how can we understand something we don’t study?

 

Who is this God and what does He truly want from me?  

 

What is His heart?

 

Who is He?

 

We can think many things about Jesus, and God, but we have to ask—are my perceptions really the way that He is?

 

In His moments of greatest trial, He proves again and again, that He is for us.

 

We worry about knowing everything…..but what about seeing it from God’s side?  He was so committed to Judas choosing his destiny that He washed his feet too—knowing full well that Judas was going to make the WRONG choice.

 

It must have been unbearable to wash his feet knowing that he was going to be betrayed….and yet, Jesus chose freedom and choice over protection.

 

Why did He do it?

 

It says in scripture that ALL of us will sit before God and have our miscues on full display.

 

2 Corinthians 5 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

 

I can remember in college entering the film room after an incredibly bad play.  Up on the wall, in a larger than life video, was my mistake, over and over again, played out in all of it’s shame.  And the coaches sat and showed it again and again in front of the entire team.

 

As they say in the NFL, “the eye in the sky don’t lie”.

 

And neither does the Lord.

 

That….is why Jesus did it.

 

He did it because we are sitting ducks.

 

Our destinies—-all of us—-are completely hopeless without Him.

 

We have NO CHANCE.

 

On our own accord, we will never—ever—measure up.

 

So what are we to do?

 

The enemy is working in every arena.

 

I think it would benefit all of us to open up a Bible and find out who He is.

 

It would benefit all of us to turn off our social media for a time and spend some time in prayer.

 

It would benefit all of us to truly seek His heart and find out what He would have us do.

 

What are your dreams?

 

How do you want your life to truly play out?

 

2000 years ago, in an upper room, He chose you.

 

He washed the feet of men who would soon betray or abandon Him to show you that He wants to give you the keys to His house….and He is willing to do it IN SPITE of your deficiencies.

 

It is as true today as it was 4 years ago.  Choosing Him is the greatest thing you could ever do.

 

Choose Him

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmQ1lQyj_M

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J