Love on its knees

Just another passover not just another meal

Celebrating freedom while bound by prideful zeal

With bickering abounding o'er who was sitting where

In the seat of honor a traitor was seated there...

So they reclined around the table with their dirty feet

Defiling the meal with dirty hearts- the picture was complete!

When up from the table the master arose

Laid aside his outer clothes

Wrapped up in a towel and leaving His seat

He poured out the water to wash their feet!

For He knew His destiny- he soon would bear their sins

Because of this they could be clean and only He could cleanse!

In hideous humility-With absolute authority

Love got down on its knees for sinful men!

Now he wants to kneel before me to wash these feet of mine

So how can I call him Lord and resist Him time after time?

For I cannot wash and cleanse myself as through this world i move

The master of the Universe removed all of His glory

To wash me once forevermore- took on a servant's role for me!

We are not better or greater than He

And he tells us that servants are truly free

For He knew His destiny-Only He can bear our sins

Because of him we can be clean-But only He can cleanse

In hideous humility-With absolute authority

Love got down on its knees for sinful men!

October 10,1990

Anthony Foster