A terrific study is finding the people who fell at Jesus’ feet. Tucked in the Gospels you’ll find stories of those who despair. You’ll also see them come to Jesus in brokenness and humility, without any other recourse. I call these the “people of the feet.”
They came to Jesus because they had no hope otherwise. They were people who were hopeless and wretched, they had long ago run out of options. They came to Jesus, falling down in front of Him. They were all people of the feet.
They were men and women who were truly desperate.
There are some common characteristics that feet-finders have:
- A great need that can’t be met without His touch
- To understand one’s true condition–humility, brokenness
- To beg for a healing, for self or family
- To honor Jesus as the Messiah
- To be more receptive to His teaching, to understand Him
- To become a witness to others (although it does seem secondary)
“But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.“
Mark 7:25
“Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind.”
Luke 8:35
But there are several other instances where people came to sit at Jesus’ feet:
- Mark 5:22-23, Jairus, a leader in the local synagogue
- Luke 7:37-38, a sorrowing mother for her daughter
- Luke 8:41, also Jairus
- Luke 10:39, Mary, when Jesus was teaching
- John 11:32, Mary, meeting Jesus entering Bethany
- John 12:3, Mary, with her perfume
- Revelation 1:17, John to express what he was seeing (also 19:10)
In every case we find people consciously coming and kneeling at the feet of the Lord Jesus. It was a deliberate action that came from their hearts. Each had a terrible need, and each was without hope.
It’s the end of religion if you’re a feet-finder. No more facades, no more treadmills. Instead your heart forever changes.
Hardly decent to religious people.
Are you really that desperate yet? Have you seen your need, and do you realize how lost you would be without His healing touch?
I’m convinced only Jesus can make me clean and whole.
But I found my rightful place at His feet. It’s where I belong. I love Him.
I’m not ashamed to be found kneeling.
Alaska Bible Teacher 