Hierarchy has No Place

One of the most precious pictures of the meek and lowly Lamb of God, Jesus the Christ, the One with all power and authority in the universe, is found in John 13:1-17. Here, Jesus, who was willingly continuing on the Father’s path for Him of giving His very lifeblood to purchase eternal life for those who would surrender to Him and follow Him, demonstrates the radical, sacrificial love that marks His reign over the hearts of men. He was not reluctant as He took a towel and put it around His waist to position Himself for the most humble and servile of tasks—that of washing His disciples’ feet the night before His death on the cross. In fact, in this task He, “longed to show them the full measure of His love,” The Passion Translation records.[1] He knew He was breaking through the sense of hierarchy that in the world’s  social, political and religious thinking determined greatness. The culture was marked by a pecking order—the enemy’s hierarchy on earth, a hierarchy that came into being as the curse fell in the Garden of Eden and man was subject to satan’s order. This demonic hierarchy is in the way of the rule of God’s kingdom of love. 

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