Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
"No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet."
Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have not part with me."
John 13:7-8
Do we fight Jesus when He tries to clean us? Do we say, "no way," that doesn't need to be done? Or perhaps we cannot accept what he has already don in our life and ask him to start all over again. As if to say one cleansing from Him was not enough!
The best path is to just accept Jesus's words in verse 7 - "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.: We have to learn trust-trust God will not begin working in an area of our life until we are ready. Trust that he knows what needs to be cleaned and exactly how much cleaning needs to be done. Then we have to trust that He can do the cleaning.
When we do, we can rest knowing later we will understand the events of the now.
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