You go to work and you find that your supervisor or boss has finished a project you were working on. You are not in trouble and they are not angry with you.  It was done as an act of kindness.

Imagine if you will;

You come home to find dinner prepared for you and the house has been picked up or cleaned.  The note that was left behind says, just wanted to do something nice for you.

I have watched and have received these acts of kindness. My first response, “I wish they hadn't.”

In John 13:3-15 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power.... and yet he continued teaching the disciples.  Why did Peter say “no” when Jesus began to wash his feet?  I am not sure if Peter was the first disciple that Jesus knelt before, but he is the first recorded in the Bible to object.  I believe Peter knew what his job was and he wanted to show Jesus he was ready to accept his responsibility as a leader.  He wanted to show Jesus he was ready to go where he was supposed to go, speak what he had been taught and serve the way Jesus had showed him.

In being a servant, Jesus opened a gate of understanding to being a teacher.  His willingness to do the job that not many would want to do can teach us that if we are to become like Jesus, we need to do anything that helps someone else learn that  they are worthy of an act of kindness.