Theme: No matter what you do, do it to serve God and others.
Scripture: John 13: 3-5
Most kids have an idea what job they might like to have. Do you? Some jobs look like they would be more fun than others. Perhaps you’d like to be a pilot, or a race car driver. Would you like to care for animals, or sell ice cream, or build houses, or work in a bakery? There are so many different jobs and we’re very fortunate in our country to be able to choose whatever job we want. Some jobs involve hard work; others require many years of training and education. Some bring lots of money, some make you famous. Some jobs are hardly ever recognized. What sort of job would you like?
What do you think would be the best job in the whole world? Being a professional football player, who makes a lot of money? Or would you like to be a movie star, who is rich and famous? Or the President of the United States who has an Army, Navy and an Air Force all ready to do what he orders? What about being God? He’s the master of the universe.
What do you think is the worst job in the world? Cleaning bathrooms? Collecting trash? Or perhaps being a shoe salesman who has to deal with smelly feet all day.
Feet can become very dirty, can’t they? Especially when you wear sandals or no shoes at all, and where there are no paved streets, just dirt roads. The people of Jesus’ time had a way to deal with dirty feet. The family servant would wash the feet of those who came to visit for dinner. It was a dirty, smelly, unpleasant job.
But, Jesus, who was the Son of God, knelt un front of his friends, and washed their feet. He had the best job in the world and the worst. When he finished washing his followers’ feet, he told them, “You call me Teacher and Lord, and so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher has washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.”
No matter what job you choose to do, when you do it with a servant’s heart, you are richly rewarded in God’s kingdom.
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