Beautiful Feet!

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March 11, 2022

Good Morning Yahweh. Thank you for being a friend. Thank you for the million little/big miracles you do everyday just for me. Thank you for being my father. Thank you for your grace, your forgiveness, your cleansing. You make me new everyday: every moment that I give to you.
Thank you for the tools and the strategies that you have given me. It’s so easy to say “All I need is Jesus,” and then sit and not do work because we expect you to lift our hands for us too. But we are your hands and feet on this earth – even when it comes to what we have to do for ourselves.
You give us ideas and strategies. You give us weapons of warfare in this spiritual battle and you expect us to use them. You teach us to use them so that we don’t just sit and get beaten but that through you we can win. We can have a life worth living and dying for. We can have your peace and the joy that comes from knowing and being a part of your family.

Isaiah 52:7 – How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces the good news, “All is well.” He brings the good news, announces salvation and tells Zion that its God rules as King.

Even though this isn’t stated often in scripture, the imagery is so powerful that it is a well-known scripture. Most people won’t consider feet beautiful – not without it being pampered and oiled and being all delicate. But Yahweh truly does not see the way man sees. Feet that carries the good news, across the mountain to boot. These feet would be tired, calloused, maybe even damaged. But in Yahweh’s eyes they are beautiful because they’re helping his people. They are teaching. But also they are a support for the one who loves him. It is a strange thing to sing the “praises” of, but Yahweh does not operate the way we do. We are the instruments of his peace.

Ecclesiastes 4:5 – A fool folds his hands and wastes away.
Proverbs 12:24 – Hardworking hands gain control, but lazy hands do slave labor.

I know the Bible doesn’t call hands beautiful also, but the hands also work. They help to carry the good news and it’s interesting how often in scripture, the hands of a lazy person are condemned. They don’t want to work, not for Yahweh, much less for themselves. There’s both a blessing and a curse wrapped up in one. Yahweh promises beauty, control, riches to those who do his work. But he also promises poverty and (sigh) slavery to those who don’t want to work. They would be forced to work. Hmmmmm. There’s actually pleasure in working (not all the time now), but for me, I have little joy when I have nothing to do for a long period of time. And I enjoy the rest even more when my task is complete.
Yahweh, thank you for knowing and understanding the importance of doing your work. Of choosing to honour you and to share your good news. It’s an interesting (weird) promise of beautiful (hands) and feet but it shows how important you think the work is. Thank you for using us, for having us as an extension of yourself. Thank you for loving us and seeing the beauty in the callouses and the hard work. For real though: our feet go through so much. Thank you for giving us purpose and tools to accomplish it and for calling them beautiful. I think we all like beauty.