Otts Creative Ministries

  Once again, I’ve painted a scene from the Gospels. I wanted to show the scene of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. Why? Because it shows us how we are to be as Christians. You see, washing feet was a common practice in Jesus’s culture. Walking around in sandals all day made your feet real dirty, especially since there were no concrete sidewalks like we have today. And so, whenever a host had guests over to their home, they would provide water for them to wash their feet or have a servant to do so as well. Sometimes the host would wash their feet, but that was not as common, as typically the lowest servant would wash feet. After all it’s a stinky job. Yet Jesus did it. The Son of God. The Messiah. God in the flesh washed feet. “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...

“And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.” -           Exodus 13:21      When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, He went before them as a cloud by day and a fire by night, protecting them from enemies and leading them on the way to the promised land. They were leaving the only thing they had ever known, going somewhere they had no idea about. But God did. God knew exactly where he was taking them.      One of the reasons God led them like this was to light the way in the darkness (duh). This Christian life is very similar to following God as a pillar of fire. We don’t know what lies ahead. All we see ahead is darkness. We don’t know the future. No amount of planning or control will ever truly give us the life we think we want. The only way we can go forward th...