Jesus serves

We always hear the saying “Jesus Saves.” You go to a church and they say “Jesus Saves,” go to downtown and you see billboards that say, “Jesus Saves.” The catch phrase of our religion.

Now don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with that phrase because it is true. Jesus does save us from our sinful selves, but what Jesus came and did, was in reality, more than just saving. Jesus served.

In John 13:4-17, Jesus is again setting an example and giving instructions to his disciples. When Jesus, who remember IS God and the savior of the world, gets up and lowers himself to the point of a servant this was a major belittling of himself. Peter especially recognizes this, and Jesus uses Peter’s loud mouth to make an example of us needing to be cleaned by him daily (feet washing happened often in that culture).

But the point he is making to the disciples in verses 14-17 is that, we as followers of Jesus are to do the same thing Jesus did. Make ourselves lower in service to others, for this is the example that Jesus Christ himself set.

So I don’t know why we don’t hear more of “Jesus Serves,” perhaps because it requires us to do something that seems unnatural to us, or requires us to do something at all; but remember, we can never lower ourselves in service more than what God already has. He has lowered Himself from Creator to created, from perfect to sin, all in order to serve us. Now it is our turn to go and do likewise.