'Foot washing
Foot washing
We must be cleansed ourselves, if we would seek the cleansing of others. What if our own hands, with which we would wash the feet of other disciples, are not clean — but are themselves covered with sin? Instead of cleansing the lives we touch — we shall then leave stains upon them.
So we must see that our own hands have been washed in the blood of Christ, before we undertake to wash the feet of others. We must be willing to yield-over our own feet to the water. The washing is to go all around; we are to wash one another's feet. The secret of all must be genuine love for others.
"Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." John 13:14-15