I have this affinity to the callouses on my feet. I like to get rid of them. Standing on my feet all day I seem to get an excessive thickness on my heels. A few years ago my wife bought me a “Ped Egg”. You remember the television commercials, don't you? They show a woman using this contraption to remove those pesky callouses on her feet. In just a few minutes they show the woman holding out what seems to be the entire first layer of her dermis in this little glorified skin shaver.
Tonight I was Ped Egging my own pesky, crusty, feet when a thought popped into my head like the sweet aroma of dead skin filling air and half filing the plastic egg. I found myself wondering, “I wonder if Jesus needed a Ped Egg?” I am sure He did because He walked everywhere. I would imagine that His feet were much more crusty than anything we would see today. Then I wondered, “if Jesus ever took a pumice stone to His feet, or at least tried to scrape His callouses on a rock?”
I can't help thoughts like these. They seem to fly into my head so fast that I don't have time to block them. I'm not sure I would even if I could. I get a lot of thinking done this way. The thought flies in, my A.D.D. kicks in, and my mind goes from “What is the square root of 3905763?” (because I am very smart) to, “I wonder if Jesus ever chewed on His own toes nails?” (again, because I am very smart).
I often wonder how far Jesus walked out of His way to see just one person? How far would He go to let some one know His love? The christianese thing to say would be “He walked all the way to the cross”. But, really, how far? Or, better yet, how far did he run, if you see Jesus as the father in the parable of the prodigal son? I don't run much, but I have done my share and it only increases the thickness of skin on my heels, so I would bet that Jesus had to do a lot more running than me.
I tell you what, I see Jesus not as someone who just runs to people in need, but I see Him as a Ped Egg to a world of calloused hearts. And getting down on His knees, looking past the stink and dirt, He takes His Ped Egg and begins to gently, lovingly, scrape the callouses off of our hearts. The interesting thing is, once He gets the callouses off of our hearts, He asks us to go and start doing the same for someone else.
So, who's heart are you Ped Egging?
Tonight I was Ped Egging my own pesky, crusty, feet when a thought popped into my head like the sweet aroma of dead skin filling air and half filing the plastic egg. I found myself wondering, “I wonder if Jesus needed a Ped Egg?” I am sure He did because He walked everywhere. I would imagine that His feet were much more crusty than anything we would see today. Then I wondered, “if Jesus ever took a pumice stone to His feet, or at least tried to scrape His callouses on a rock?”
I can't help thoughts like these. They seem to fly into my head so fast that I don't have time to block them. I'm not sure I would even if I could. I get a lot of thinking done this way. The thought flies in, my A.D.D. kicks in, and my mind goes from “What is the square root of 3905763?” (because I am very smart) to, “I wonder if Jesus ever chewed on His own toes nails?” (again, because I am very smart).
I often wonder how far Jesus walked out of His way to see just one person? How far would He go to let some one know His love? The christianese thing to say would be “He walked all the way to the cross”. But, really, how far? Or, better yet, how far did he run, if you see Jesus as the father in the parable of the prodigal son? I don't run much, but I have done my share and it only increases the thickness of skin on my heels, so I would bet that Jesus had to do a lot more running than me.
I tell you what, I see Jesus not as someone who just runs to people in need, but I see Him as a Ped Egg to a world of calloused hearts. And getting down on His knees, looking past the stink and dirt, He takes His Ped Egg and begins to gently, lovingly, scrape the callouses off of our hearts. The interesting thing is, once He gets the callouses off of our hearts, He asks us to go and start doing the same for someone else.
So, who's heart are you Ped Egging?
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