4.16- I have come to the belief that the process of working through dirty things can result in getting important messages.

 4.16-

 I have come to the belief that the process of working through dirty things can result in getting important messages.

Dishwashing and putting away dishes and silverware.

Vacuuming.

Cleaning the microwave and the front of the refrigerator and the mirrors.

Taking out the trash and the garbage.

Washing the car to remove gifts from birds and other dirt.

These jobs can be considered dirty work. The servant workers get these jobs.

I have two mail boxes in front of my house because the house was built as the beginning or end of one phase of construction of the neighborhood. The sidewalk stops at my house. The house to the West of me has a double mailbox. One is my neighbors and one is mine.

Then in front of my house is an individual mailbox.

My regular mail person delivers my snail mail to the neat, clean and non-rusty mailbox in front of my house.

My back up mail person delivers my snail mail to the dirty, rusty, inconvenient for me mail box.

Why? Because he/she finds this is convenient for them. If he/she puts my mail in the dirty box, then my neighbor’s mail is in my box and she, the neighbor on the East of me gets no mail from the mail person and I must get that to her myself.

Why? The easy, convenient way is the way the majority will go, without good, deep thought. But the narrow way, minority will choose to do the hard, dirty job and leave the easier jobs to someone else and take the hard jobs for themselves.

Larry Wishard

4.2.22

John 13.

13 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He would depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them [a]to the end. 2 And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had handed all things over to Him, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, 4 *got up from supper and *laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

5 Then He *poured water into the basin, and began washing the disciples’ feet and wiping them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. 6 So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, You are washing my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not realize right now, but you will understand later.” 8 Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no [b]place with Me.” 9 Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean. And you are clean—but [c]not all of you.” 11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; it was for this reason that He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 Then, when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’; and [d]you are correct, for so I am. 14 So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I gave you an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you. 16 Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is [e]one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 18 I am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones whom I have chosen; but this is happening so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ 19 From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I am He. 20 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who [f]receives anyone I send, [g]receives Me; and the one who [h]receives Me [i]receives Him who sent Me.”