Jesus Day Spa: Free Pedi's

So this week, I want to speak just a little on and in keeping in the same area of The Bible in  Ephesians where we have been focusing primarily on the different roles of the man and the woman within the church-sanctioned family.

We have established the wide area and breadth of true leadership within the home and how it can come from different sides of both the male and the female spectrum.
One of the things that I find truly telling about couples that Angela & I come across, are those individuals who are physically capable of but circumstantially excluded from  Podiatric  care.

I used to have it wrong…used to walk around saying “Remember when Jesus washed the prostitute’s feet?..... isn’t that cool? What a statement!!”

See the thing is, He never did that…..SHE….washed HIS…. And then in the company of His disciples, in some of His last moments….Jesus…The Teacher….washed His STUDENT’S FEET. Including Judas….who was just lickin’ his chops to get his hands on those thirty coins.

He blessed the prostitute when he was chillin’ at the  Pharisee’s house…just eating a sandwich and minding His own business….nope…turns it into a teachable moment and did indeed bless her after she had washed His feet and cleaned the oils and dirt off of them with her own tears and dirty hair.

Therefore, I think we can resolve here on this thread…that Jesus was no stranger to the care and upkeep of His own feet and other people’s.

….and….as it is written in ^{John 13: 14 “}Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.”

 Angela and I, have at our disposal, the ability to literally “Make it rain” for our feet. We can afford specialists to come in from Houston, we could send ourselves to some pretty decent local establishments that are really up-and-comers who try extra in order to make a name for themselves…..make no mistake…the AVAILABILITY is there in our lives and I think for many of our friends who follow us on this scroll and on other social platforms.

Sure it’s AVAILABLE…. You can write it off as a line item or relegate it in your mind to something that is included in the “Upkeep” of your wife’s well being to send her to get he mani/pedi’s routinely. Nothing wrong with that….nothing at all.

However, if YOU PHYSICALLY CAN….IF you are paying for it once a week (or whatever regularity you employ) instead of using your own hands….to do it yourself….    Ask yourself this one question….. WHY WOULD YOU NOT? 

Honestly…..why would you not?

Jesus wasn’t asking…..he was TELLING:

^“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.”

…and we’re not going to try to sheepishly get out of it by employing some lame ass excuse about how your wife has a fungal infection or an 11^th toe or that her feet smell like Cheeto’s. Everyone’s feet got problems! Doesn’t matter what your schedule says…or the cost….doing it yourself doesn’t cost a thing!.....that’s the BRILLIANCE in the message from The Lord here!

In order to do some things right….you don’t spend money on them….you come down off of your pedestal and you do them YOURSELF.

 Angela is great……what can I say…she’s my blushing, beautiful bride who I could go on and on about…but she could be TERRIBLE….   She could be on my WORST bad list in a day and I would STILL wash her feet at the end of it…no matter what…because JESUS said so.

Besides….all weird fetishes aside….there is some STRANGE STUFF that goes on when you start rubbing on your ladies feet fellas….let me tell you…must be some sort of chemical that is released or SOMEHTING….  You’ll have a friend for LIFE!! Jesus knew what was up…it’s pretty much the most intimate thing you can do with a person besides sex. He knew that….which is why he let the prostiture wash His in the Pharasees house and went OUT OF HIS WAY to wash the feet of Judas. …you try living with the fact that you sent The Light Of The Earth to be snuffed out just after He gave you a DELIGHTFUL Pedi……for 30 pieces of silver.

In conclusion it all comes down to The Word….

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”

God knows His church is made up of imperfection and those who seek the truth THROUGH Him.  AKA…… Gentlemen….and Ladies….he is WELL AWARE of the “Situation” you got “Goin’ on” in your shows and under those socks. It’s imperfect, it’s gross….or maybe not….I’ve seen me some feet in my day…. He KNOWS about your feet because He MADE THEM.

He has set the example for you…in His actions reflected in the scriptures….

It is up to US as His imperfect children that he loves so very much….. to STOP…..and get down there…..    stop what you are doing….and take some time and just wash the feet of the person whom you are equally yolked with…..’What He hath begun…let no man put asunder.”
Get to work.

 My best,

Mark