Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Are You Able? - Christ, the Example

Day 2: Christ, the example

Let Him lead me where He will

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet (John 13:14).

Lord, make me childlike. Deliver me from the urge to compete with another for place or prestige or position. I would be simple and artless as a little child.

Deliver me from pose and pretense. Forgive me for thinking of myself. Help me to forget myself and find my true peace in beholding Thee. That Thou mayest answer this prayer I humble myself before Thee.

Lay upon me Thy easy yoke of self-forgetfulness that through it I may find rest.

Amen.

~ A.W. Tozer ~

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Disrobed of all His heav’nly dress,

The Savior came to earth,

Clothed in a veil of mortal flesh,

And bowed His head in death.

That awful night in which, betrayed,

He introduced the feast,

Which we, my friends, have seen displayed,

Where each has been a guest—

The solemn scene about to close,

To make the whole complete,

He meekly from communion rose

And washed His servants’ feet.

“To each,” He said, “let others do,

As I, your Lord, have done;

The heav’nly pattern still pursue,

In form as I have shown.”

Since Christ has the example set,

Recorded in His Word,

We’ll humbly wash each other’s feet,

Obedient to our Lord.

~ Anonymous/Unknown ~ pub. 1825

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