In John 13 we read about Jesus washing the disciple's feet. Can you just imagine the scene. The disciples had been talking about who was the greatest in the kingdom of God.(See Luke 22:14-30) Jesus takes off His outer garment and girds Himself with a towel. He pours water into a basin and begins to wash their dirty feet.
Peter doesn't want to let Jesus wash his feet. It's a pretty humbling thing if you think about it. We really don't know what Peter was thinking or feeling but we do know this: Peter had preached the good news and cast out demons and still needed to have Jesus wash his feet. Peter had walked on water and still needed Jesus to wash his feet. Peter had healed the sick and he still needed Jesus to wash his feet.
That's intimacy with Jesus. Every day we mess up. Believers are not perfect, we aren't sinless we just sin less. And when we do we hate it. We use the Christian's bar of soap: 1 John 1:9
John 13:8-10
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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