Your Last Night On Earth

Imagine learning that you will die tomorrow.<br />If you knew this, how would you spend your last night on earth? A full year stretched out before you, but you only get today.<br />This may sound morbid, and even farfetched, but this is exactly the situation Jesus was in in today’s devotional verse from John chapter 13:<br />"Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him."<br />In that passage of scripture, we find Jesus on the night before his crucifixion. He knew exactly how he would die, and was well-acquainted with the horrors of Roman execution.<br />Even knowing this, Jesus spends his last night loving and serving his friends, and washing their feet.