Dirty feet. Pure heart. That’s my Jesus! – Kayla Murphy
I often think on the life of Jesus as he walked the earth. Read that again. HE WALKED THE EARTH! His feet touched the same dirt yours and mine are touching today. Isn’t there a comfort in that beautiful truth? Isn’t there a comfort in knowing He knows because He’s done it? He’s been here…whatever “here” we are in. What a Savior. What a friend! What a model to follow after. He graced our world so we could gracefully enter His. Hallelujah!
He was God, but He was as human as you and me. He walked the earth. He got lunch with His friends. He visited family. He worked as a carpenter. He got tired. His hair grew and had to be cut. He had to trim His nails. He had to shower and get clean. He had to eat and drink. His feet got dirty! He had put together people around him. He had disaster, nasty people around him. Jesus….His feet were filled with the dust of earth because He did life here, but the beauty was that He was a supernatural wonder in the everyday mundane! Dirty feet. Pure heart. He knew carpenter moments of today would be the building blocks of the Kingdom of Heaven tomorrow. He knew that every moment, no matter how seemingly insignificant, was a moment purposed by the Father. He knew that being with the unworthy would give them a gateway to be clean. I’m so thankful for that! Isn’t it incredible that because He lives in us that we can be a supernatural wonder in the everyday mundane too?
Y’all. He. Had. Dirty. Feet. He didn’t shield Himself from our nasty – He walked in it to pull us out of it. He spoke to prostitutes and tax collectors and liars and cheats. He touched lepers and hugged losers. Dirty feet, but a pure heart! Are we like Him? Do we run to the outcast and give them the hope of Jesus? Do we shuffle through the mundane moments of life or do we live supernaturally in them knowing that He is working in us and out of us even then? I want to live like that.
I pray we remember these two things today: He’s in our mundane moments and willing to use them powerfully if we’ll let him! Don’t run from others dirt floors to keep your feet clean – be Jesus to those around you and go after them!