#JESUS2018 - Daily DevotionalsSample

REVERSING THE ORDER

Life can feel like an endless episode of “America’s Got Talent’ (or the Super-Christian, Super-mom, Super-employee, ...): everywhere it seems like you have to prove what you can do and what you are worth. Whoever is in a new class at school, begins working in a new team or enters into a new circle of friends, is often very quickly stuck in a particular “pecking order”. And some do not shy from the effort of rising in this order…

Jesus turns such orders around in a fresh and radical way. He voluntarily steps down, puts on an apron and washes his disciples’ feet. This was the job of a slave. But Jesus does not feel like he is above that – and more than that:

By doing this he frees himself from the system pressure of this world and proves that it is unnecessary to join in the “ladder game” of life. Instead he shows a love that does not compete with others, but serves them. This is exactly how Jesus changes people from within: It is these disciples, whose feet Jesus washes, who later voluntarily give their lives for their faith in Jesus.

ACTION STEP:

Think about a concrete deed of servitude, resp. love towards another, who is below you in the “pecking order” of this world: an assistance, present, surprise … and also do it!

Manuel Schmid, ICF Basel