The Jesus Way

Praise God for what He is doing in and through our Western Heights family!  I am so thankful and inspired by the work of the Holy Spirit I see in so many of you, my brothers and sisters in Christ.  My heart rejoices in the new energy, ideas, and efforts I am witnessing.  Continue to “have eyes to see and ears to hear” as you heed His calling and follow His lead in growing in your love for Him and your love for those around you.  

Sometimes the things we are called to do are easy and sometimes they are not.  In John 13, we read of when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.  All twelve of his disciples.  All twenty-four dirty feet.  Even the feet of the one who had already betrayed him.  I am bewildered and convicted by the kind of love it took for Jesus to tenderly wash the feet of Judas.  It makes no sense from a worldly perspective.  But Jesus makes sense of it for us, his followers, in verse 16, when he explains “The slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him”.  Jesus lived and died and lived again in obedience to the will of his Father.  He chose to sacrificially love us all.  It never will “make sense” from a worldly perspective, and I am so glad that wasn’t the perspective He chose!  May we all follow His example in submitting to the greater plan of our master, even when it isn’t easy!

In Him,
Don Keene