Feet part 3

[9] “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”
That desire. That longing to be known and owned fully by God. Peter knew it. He understood somewhere deep in His spirit that He needed to be covered by Jesus’s cleansing. I wonder if that desire to be baptized in the water, to be supersaturated by God, made Jesus happy. How many of us live God enough to say, “all of my Lord, cleanse it all.”
Stormie O’martan spoke of her heart as house. She said that in the beginning she let God into the main room and thought that was enough. But soon He was knocking on the door to another room, another part of her life, so eventually she let him in. Then He began knocking at another door and another and another, until finally He was in every room. It’s not enough to simply accept that Jesus is Lord, you must also let Him into your life, all of your life, let Him control everything. That can be hard. There may be things you are told to give up. Or things, (or harder still, people) you are told to add to your life. It’s a hard path. But no worth while path was ever ea