The mother walked into the room and noticed her three-year-old son had his boots on the wrong feet. Taking it as a teaching moment, she related to him that he had his boots on the wrong feet.
The boy responded, “But, Mom, they are the only feet I have.”
Sometimes we can lose what is being said by taking it too literally.
Case in point was Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. He wasn’t teaching that we had to literally wash one another’s feet. However, we do need to help in keeping each other clean.
John 13:7
Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
We need to make sure we understand what people are saying, but more importantly, we need to understand what Jesus is saying.
Give it some thought.
Gary