being An Exemplary Model

Being An Exemplary Model “That is disgusting! I would never touch that, but you can clean it up for me.” “Do as I say, not as I do.” Jesus traveled to many places to teach people how to care for one another. He never asked anyone to do anything he wouldn’t do himself. You are the hands of the resurrected Christ. You are the eyes of the exalted Lord. You are the heart of God’s church. Live as Jesus lived so that you might be an exemplary model for your family and friends to pattern themselves after. “So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example,,that you also should do as I have done to you.” John 13:1-8,12-15 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ Jesus answered, ‘You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’ Peter said to him, ‘You will never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.’ After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.