I realize this has been a controversial issue for many of us, whether for or against. I cannot simply skip this issue because of that. I must stand upon what Jesus is speaking to me about this dangerous train of thought.

According to the internet the ‘controversial foot-washing ‘He Gets Us’ commercial won the Super Bowl’. I visited the website hegetsus.com and saw where they were encouraging all to humble themselves and wash each other’s feet. While this seems innocuous in and of itself, they will lead many astray. While they portray Christ washing His disciple’s feet, Jesus didn’t wash everyone’s feet …  only the twelve. And then He only did so as His hour had come to depart from this world (John 13:1).

So why is ‘He Gets Us’ move so dangerous? It requires nothing of ourselves. This is not Biblical nor does it mean salvation. Yes, He does get us and that is why God gave His only Son: so that we did not have to remain in sin, but be saved by Jesus’ sacrifice on a cruel cross. If we just say ‘well, He gets me and I don’t have to change my ways or do anything at all’, that is blasphemous. It goes against every single passage of the Bible and mocks the teachings of Christ.

If the statement ‘ He gets me’ alone were true, we would not even have the Holy Spirit which guides and teaches us nor would Jesus have come from heaven’s throne to endure the life of man. Yet, God knew what we needed to be with Him. We would never have needed the entire New Testament to help us learn to die unto ourselves. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15: 31 ‘I protest by your rejoicing which have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily’. By saying ‘He gets us’, we see God as being equal with man. That is not so. It was from the fall of man in the Garden of Eden that we needed God to atone our sins. And once Christ died upon the cross, He atoned for all our mankind. But we must accept Jesus Christ as Lord to be saved: we cannot just say ‘Oh, He gets me’ and think nothing is required from us. ‘For rarely will someone die for a just person – though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, since we have now been justified by His blood, will we be saved through Him from wrath’ – Romans 5:7-9 CSB.

Yes, He does indeed ‘get us’, but God loves us too much for us to live in sin. We have to accept Jesus as Savior and Lord and learn from Him so that God not only gets us, but accepts us.