40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 14
A Servant’s Heart
by Bill Webster
Se(di)ngolwa (t)sa Bibele
BAFILIPI 2
Boikokobetso ba Kreste le ba Mokreste
MAREKA 10
Kopo ya Jakobo le Johanne
JOHANNE 13
Jesu o hlatswa maoto a barutuwa ba hae
One of the most moving episodes in the Gospels took place in the Upper Room a few hours before Jesus’ arrest. Jesus removed his outer garments, donned a towel and began to wash his disciples’ feet. No Jew, not even a Jewish slave, was required to wash another Jew’s feet. Yet Jesus did it because he had a servant’s heart and he wanted to show them the full extent of his love (John 13:1). As he had said earlier in his ministry, he did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45). He did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but made himself nothing – emptied himself of all but love – taking the very nature of a servant (Philippians 2:6–7).