To  ask  the question, "Which way is up?" will give you as many
different answers nearly as there are people--for each
determines the answer from what they observe--from their
perspective of the world in which they have come to know. The
only way for there to be any agreement--and for us to actually
be correct--is for us to have the right point of reference. For
the universe, God's throne is that point of reference. Where are
you in relation to His center? Then, knowing His and your
position, you can calculate, which way is up? 

	There are two systems operative in this world--two points of
reference. There is the Garden of Eden and the jungle of thorns
and thistles. There is the universal law of God--the law of
love; and there is the law of the demonic--the law of claw and
tooth.

	Your EGO-VALUE system is based on one of these EGO systems.   

	Mat 20:25  "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know
that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them,
and they that are great exercise authority upon them."

26  "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be
great among you, let him be your minister;"

:27  "And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your
servant:"

28  "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but
to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

	Two totally different value systems--they could not be farther
from each other. Yet, they are sometimes mingled. What may
appear as self-sacrifice could be an attempt for domination--for
self-importance. And no individual has motives that are totally
unmixed.

	We live in a garden of Eden that is no longer Eden. And so many
people have learned to behave or survive by observing the
jungle. Nature alone was inadequate, since it was distorted by
the Fall--so "God sent His Son into the world" to give us the
correct point of reference.

	Jesus contrasted these two value systems again when He ate with
the disciples Thursday before His crucifixion. Over three years
with Jesus, and they still had the problem--were still looking
for first place--operating on an EGO system that was ruining how
they dealt with each other--even in these precious moments.
Jesus observes with great disappointment--His disciples refusing
to serve. So Jesus becomes their servant.

	We refer to this as the humiliation of Christ--He humbled
Himself. But by which value system did He humble Himself? By
their value system--not His. Never was Jesus more great, than
when He washed His disciples' feet--by heaven's value system.
THIS WAS NOT AN ACT OF HUMILITY--IT WAS AN ACT OF EXALTATION--if
you have the right value system. It is the value system that
caused Him to "humble Himself and become obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross"--revealing His greatness!

	So, "Which way is up?" Jesus tells us--shows us--that the way
up is when we wash each other's feet--and in all the ways we can
do that.  

John 13:12  "So after he had washed their feet, and had taken
his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye
what I have done to you?"

	John 13:13  "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for
so I am."

14  "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye
also ought to wash one another's feet."

15  "For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I
have done to you."

16  "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent
him."

17  "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."