Beautiful Feet are Dirty Feet

Pastor Kasey Maxwell asserted this truth in Sunday’s sermon (The Life, Apollo Beach, FL).  I never really contemplated my feet before.  They are average size with disproportionately short toes.  The skin sports more than a dozen red ant bite scars of various ages including one still pimpled up.  The nail of the left second toes is growing back from an injury sustained several months ago ripping more than half the nail from its bed.  The bottoms are dark with ground in dirty from years of going barefoot and wearing sandals in all but the snowiest conditions.  The little toe on each foot has a small callous caused by the strap of my favorite pair of sandals.  And, of course, odd suntan stripes from those same sandals.  Although my feet will never be pedi-model perfect, they are clean from daily washing and hours each week in the swimming pool. I bet you never wanted to know so much about my feet. 
 
I am sure the dirty and scarred beautiful feet Pastor Kasey spoke of have nothing to do with the condition of my physical feet.  He was referring to the beautiful feet described in Romans 10:15, ‘And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”’ The dirt on those beautiful feet comes from bringing the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to a hurting world, a world desperate for a word of hope from those who carry this hope within them, those who are willing to risk getting scarred and dirty beautiful feet!
 
I pray you and I, who have the hope God promised His children, will have both compassion for those who do not know the good news and the courage to risk getting dirty, scarred, beautiful feet introducing them to our Savior.    
 
Isaiah 52:7  ‘How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”’