are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'
Break forth together into singing
you waste places of Jerusalem,
for the LORD has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
The LORD has bared his holy arm
before the eye of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God."
Isaiah 52:7, 9-10
In this chapter, Isaiah is prophesying about the coming salvation, in which God will show His sovereignty in saving his people from their sins. Verse 7 is really exciting, because it shows God's desire to use people to declare His glory and proclaim His salvation to the ends of the earth. God has an amazing plan to save His people from bondage and He wants to use us- how amazing is that?
This verse has always really intrigued me. God calls feet of those who take the gospel to the world beautiful. Maybe this doesn't sound very "holy" or "spiritual" to say, but that just seems kind of weird to me. If I take the gospel to those around me, then God calls my feet beautiful? Really? I don't really get grossed out by feet like a lot of people do, but I've always thought that mine were pretty ugly- or at least not beautiful. In high school I danced en point, so my feet usually had callouses, blisters, and bruised toenails. They still get like that quite a bit when I go running. I could go into more detail, but let's just say that I don't have the prettiest feet.
But God has called me to use my life to proclaim the message of salvation among the nations. This summer I have the wonderful opportunity to do that by spending two months taking the gospel to an unreached people group in the mountains of the Philippines. Literally, God is sending my "ugly" feet to go to the mountains and bring good news to those who have never heard! And so He calls my feet beautiful. Why? Not because of me or anything I've done to make myself "beautiful." But because my feet are fitted with a readiness that comes from the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15). So God calls them beautiful because they are taking the wonderful message of salvation to a dying world. And that is beautiful. Even if my physical feet are ugly, God calls obedience prompted by a love for Him and a desire to take His message to the ends of the world, participating in His plan for the salvation of His people beautiful. And I think it's pretty neat that He allows us to be a part of that.
So this summer I'll be posting updates about what God is doing in and through our team while we're overseas. It'll be quite an interesting summer, and I'm really excited to see what God does in those mountains with our feet. May He use our time to work out His sovereign plan so that all the ends of the earth will truly see the salvation of our God!
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