As you step on the streets of Guatemala, it is clear to see what God intended for fellowship among us. All it takes is an “Hola” and the next thing you know you are invited into somones home who gives their best food and hospitality to you, and tells you their life story despite them knowing you don’t speak Spanish. Can you picture strangers walking up to your door and barely able to say hello clearly. Would you invite them in? Probably not. Would you take out your finest dinnerware and feed them your most expensive food? Most likely not. We are selfish in our comfortable lives and we cringe when we even have to give away things we don’t use anymore.
God showed me through meeting one woman and her family what a servant’s heart truly looks like. After walking down dirt roads and getting covered in mud, we entered this woman’s home. Immediately she made the family get up and give us their best chairs. Then she had her husband climb a rickety ladder to chop us down coco’s. (coconuts) Mind you this woman has just met us, six foreigners speaking barely any Spanish. After giving us coco’s and straws she then saw our dirty feet. She then, grabbed my hand and led me to the pila (wash sink) and began taking off my sandal and washing my feet. It blew my mind to see her showing so much care for strangers. She was literally following what Jesus did.
Jesus humbled himself and washed the feet of his disciples to show how much he cared for them, and I got to experience that in real life. This woman cared for me, a stranger enough to humble herself to washing my feet.
I can’t imagine what our world could look like if we cared about each other this much, even strangers. If we lived out being the hands and feet of Jesus, the world would looked completely different.
“Having loves his own who were in the world, she now showed them the full extent of love… he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet, drying them with the towel wrapped around him” John 13
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