Some thoughts regarding washing feet

The secret to harmony and unity is learning, practicing and accepting the washing of one another’s feet.

He/Judas took the sop from Jesus' hand, and that was the final chance he had. When he did, Satan entered into him, and Judas was no longer his own master in any degree at all. . . Jesus sacrificed himself in order to save his disciples; Judas sacrificed Jesus in order to save himself. Those two philosophies dominate the world today.

Is there, then, a point of no return?

In this final appeal, Jesus is directing a word to the holders of the two basic attitudes present, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any one whom I send receives me." That is a word to the disciples, and to us, that when someone comes to us to wash our feet, to help us with some problem of sin or error in our life, we are to remember that this person is sent by Jesus. Therefore it is Jesus himself who is standing before us. It is he who is offering to wash our feet. And we are not to resent this kind of ministry on the part of others. We are not to say, "You have no right to come to me. This is my own private affair; you have nothing to do with it." But we are to remember that "He who receives any one whom I send," Jesus says, "receives me." Let us not, like Peter, fall into the error of rejecting the indispensable ministry of cleansing which Jesus offers. (Stedman)

Often times that “someone” that Jesus sends is His Spirit, although He is always at work – when He reveals our wrong, our sin, through our conscience and gives us the opportunity and the privilege of repenting and “receiving” Jesus (of having our feet washed).

(As an aside, in typing this out I at first typed “repeating” rather than “repenting”.  What a difference one letter can make – there’s a lesson there, not sure just what it is though.)