Do You Want Happyness?

[Eric Stahl]

John 13:14-17

14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

¹⁵For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

¹⁶Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

 

¹⁷If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

[2bLikeJesus]

Our pastor will do things every now and then just to give us a glimpse of what life was like for the Jew under the law, or the early Christian church.  Last year we had a Sabbath OBservance day exactly as the Jew would OBserve it 6pm Friday to 6pm Saturday.  We could not work at all, travel more than a Sabbath days journey (1 mile), could not cook any meals, etc...IT WAS HARD!  Several years ago, our church tried "foot washing" once.   It was so weird, and uncomfortable.  Most people have an aversion to someone not their spouse using their hands to wash any part of their body.  We decided to follow the spirit of the command "which is to be a servant to each other" in whatever way we can, and not the letter of actually demonstrating that servantship by washing their feet.  I for one am soooooo glad the church as a whole, with no desenting votes, decided to go that way.  

 

Bro. Garry

[Genevanpreacher]

As a Father of four beautiful children, (with my one and only Wife of 26 years), I have learned 'servant-hood' for their sakes, but I have to say, as for washing feet, my wife is a much better example of 'happiness', for she washed all four of them kiddo's almost every time, and not the feet only! 

[MountainChristian]

If wash means: dip foot in water, wipe with towel. Then I've done it. It was weird and seemed like something a part of a formal religion. (I wondered if Jesus had soap)

[John81]

There is a Baptist church in a town south of here that does foot washings. I'm not sure but they may be a Primitive Baptist church. I've never been there but have heard about it and one time there was even a story in the county paper about it.

[paid4]

I'm just not convicted about feet washing other than my own. I am however under conviction about snake handling.

 

I will NOT handle a snake. That's my conviction and I'm sticking to it. It ranks right up there with the Trinity, Salvation, and the KJV Bible as far as things I believe and will not change my mind about.

 

There are only 4 snakes I don't like.....live ones, dead ones, big ones, and little ones.

[DaveW]

I'm just not convicted about feet washing other than my own. I am however under conviction about snake handling.

 

I will NOT handle a snake. That's my conviction and I'm sticking to it. It ranks right up there with the Trinity, Salvation, and the KJV Bible as far as things I believe and will not change my mind about.

 

There are only 4 snakes I don't like.....live ones, dead ones, big ones, and little ones.

 

I have handled snakes, and so have most of my kids.

 

Pythons at wildlife parks, I grant you, but still........  

[John81]

No need for feet washing these days, and most people don't want their feet touched by strangers, and I know I don't.

 

No to handling snakes and dancing around with them all up in front of my face.

 

My approach to snakes is so long as they aren't on my property they can go their way and I'll go mine. If they are on my property I'm killing 'em.

[2bLikeJesus]

<------purposely imported "gopher hunting" snakes into his garden and have a mutual working relationship with them.  The snakes also do a great jOB at deterring another major garden menace in my part, deer.  The Deer are deathly afraid of snakes and will NOT enter my garden when they see one.   Without those snakes I would only get half the yield out of my garden at best.  

[Eric Stahl]

I believe Jesus was asking us to serve one another continuously as a way of life. That is much more demanding then washing someone's feet once. It will bring you happiness and reward.

[John81]

I've known older farmers who purposefully keep or bring in snakes, often into their barn, to keep down the rodent population.

 

Around here they call their favorite snake for that a bull snake, but maybe there are others named that too because I've seen pictures of other snakes called by that name that were not like ours at all. Our bull snakes get pretty good size but they are really mellow. They hardly ever bite anyone. They just hang around the barn, eat up the mice and stay out of the way.

[Genevanpreacher]

Uh... happiness and snakes? ...that just don't seem 'kosher'.

[John81]

I'm happy knowing there are no snakes nearby!

[Genevanpreacher]

Amen!