The “alleylon” (one another) passages in the New Testament, Part 4:
When God kneels in humility to serve us, we are raised to unbelievably great stature in his eyes, and rightly made infinitely small in our own.
If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash each others’ feet (Jn. 13:14).
As a sophomore in high school, I suffered under the tutelage of a biology teacher who spent a good deal of time fulminating against God as the designer of human ugliness. According to his rather misanthropic vision of our race, the worst physical features of the hominid form were the feet and the knees. I can’t begin to imagine the terrible trauma that this poor man must have experienced at birth or at the hands of some abusive authority figure such that he could muster nothing but unbridled hatred for portions of our lower extremities. Webbed toes or tibialis posterior tenosynovitis? Excessive genuflection? I am afraid he carried his secret to the grave with him.
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