You know, Lord, how eagerly I serve you when I’m engaged in church activities.
How enthusiastically I speak your Word of encouragement, when I’m around others I know as Christians.
How joyful I am when I’m able to share about you to others outside the church.
All those “normal things” Christians are asked to do…
But how would I react, I wonder,
If you pointed to a basin of water
And asked me to wash the callused feet of a bent and wrinkled old woman
Day after day, Month after month,
In a room where nobody saw
And nobody knew?
How enthusiastically I speak your Word of encouragement, when I’m around others I know as Christians.
How joyful I am when I’m able to share about you to others outside the church.
All those “normal things” Christians are asked to do…
But how would I react, I wonder,
If you pointed to a basin of water
And asked me to wash the callused feet of a bent and wrinkled old womanDay after day, Month after month,
In a room where nobody saw
And nobody knew?
Modified from "I Wonder" by Ruth Harms Calkin
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© 2008 Scotty Ward
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