The washing of feet was a symbolic occasion; one which was done by My Son to offer a picture of the type of love He held in His heart for mankind.
Often people want to draw a moral equivalence between two different sides of the aisle, where one party believes the other’s stand is ethically wrong and so goes about spewing rhetoric designed to paint their opponent in the worst possible light. Oh, the foolishness of man! For there are those who are looking to gain power even if it means slandering a neighbor so that the majority in their community will believe the most salacious stories told about another.
The acrimony felt in a heart cannot be healed on its own from those bitter repinings of inner turmoil that keep a person in bondage.
This kind of suffering usually occurs due to some form of injustice; when a wrong has been inflicted by another and the circumstances were too much to bear. Then, when outward aggression was ingested (taken in from words tempered in anger), it’s as if he swallowed a disease that cannot be eradicated through humanistic treatments. For this one was caught off guard when his life took an unexpected turn and was forced to go an unplanned direction because of the thoughtlessness of another; when underhanded behavior brought about unfair consequences that set him with a disadvantage, causing his heart to be overrun with indignation, for he did not foresee this outcome.
What is it that defines a man?
What are the words used to describe who he is? Are the words or phrases colorful, depicting a cheery fellow, or dark and dreary because his disposition seems rather cloudy? What is it about a person who tells others who he is? Is it by reviewing his general countenance, such as his posture or facial expressions? Or something beyond his physical appearance, maybe those things he owns? Or is it his career, how he makes a living? What are the key elements which speak out to others, that give someone the voice to say, “This is who I am”, so that when another thinks of him, there is no question about his identity regarding the “type” of person he is?