This song is inspired by a Sermon Gem from Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The sine qua non Sermon Nine Twenty Six Spurgeon Gems dot org. Go there to find Gems galore! Now listen to the Word. Once more, I think, in this foot-washing, our Savior meant to set forth the daily communion which the true Christian has with Christ. It was a very singular thing for a disciple to be sitting there, and for the Master to be washing his feet. It was an astounding fact, a wonder, a miracle, a grace, which one could hardly think possible, but every Christian’s life must be a series of similar wonders. Each day he will have to obtain from his Lord some things, which it really seems as if he ought not to have dared to ask, for they appear too good and too great for him to receive. I know and you know what it is, to go to the Lord Jesus Christ about little things, about household cares, about daily trials, about the troubles of our spirit, the distractions of our mind. It is a mark of a child to be able to do so. It is, in fact, a continuance of the foot-washing which our Lord gave to us. Washing feet is not a great or essential act. A man may live, though his feet after a journey may not be cooled by the refreshing stream from the ewer. It is a small act, a grateful and refreshing act, and just such things Jesus Christ must continue to do for you and for me, if we are His people. We will in times of need, find Jesus in our chamber still girt with the towel and bearing the basin, ready still to wait on us and administer loving refreshments. And we shall often wonder, “What, did He really help me in such a thing as that, and did I dare to take such a case as that to Him?” Unbelief will say, “I dare not do that again. Lord, You shall never wash my feet, I cannot, I dare not make a servant of You for such common things as these. I will leave the great matters of salvation with You, but I will not come to You each day for ordinary things.” But beloved, unless we do so, unless we do live this life of reception of great grace for little occasions, unless we live receiving wonders of lovingkindness which we feel we have no right to receive, marvels of mercy surpassing all expectation, unless, I say, our life is made up of tender mercies of which we are utterly unworthy, Jesus is not washing our feet, and we have no part with Him. Put these things together, and I think you have caught the thought of our Master. It is very blessed to think that the very first portion of the least believer is to be washed, and this is the most essential thing of all. Though we may not as yet wear those brighter graces which are the ornaments of the Christian life, and cannot as yet rejoice that we are full-grown men in Christ, yet if we are only little babes whose chief portion is to be washed, we have sure evidence of a part with Jesus. We may be too little to do much service, we may be too weak to achieve great victories, but if our Lord has but taken us to Himself, and washed us, we have a part with Him. The most essential thing, you see, is that which the feeblest and the newest born of all the heavenly family possesses. Washing is for every trembling truster, and it is as good a proof of a part in Christ as the highest degree of grace.
