Washing of Another’s Feet

 Washing of Another’s Feet

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

John 13:13-15

Washing another’s feet is symbolic of intercession.

We should therefore be intercessors and not accusers of the brethren.

This task is usually performed by a servant or a slave.

We should humbly serve one another in love.

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Ephesians 5:24-27

 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Revelation 1:5

The LORD JESUS is our Heavenly Bridegroom, the Word Made Flesh, Who shed His own Blood to cleanse us, His Bride.

Our marriage relationships too should reflect this loving relationship.

When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, "David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife." Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, "Here is your maidservant, a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens; and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:40-42

Abigail is a picture of a humble intercessor in the Kingdom of GOD.

This is typical of the Bride of CHRIST.