Jesus Serves

God the Creator loved us so much that he sent Jesus into the world to show his love and care for us.  He wants us to imitate his love and serve others in the same way that he served us.  Jesus is known as “the man for others” because he lived a life of love and service for others.  At the Last Supper, he took the role of a servant and washed the feet of his disciples.  He taught his followers to practice those same kinds of service for others.  He said,  

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. (John 13:14-17) 

Jesus taught his followers to love one another in the same way and to the same extent that he loved them. 

 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (13:34-35) 

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (15:12-13)  

The apostles of Jesus taught that we should imitate Jesus in our love and service for one another.  

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:1-2) 

 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. (1 John 3:16)   

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation (the act of gaining the favor or goodwill of God) for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (4:7-12)