"Beautiful are the feet of those who share the good news of peace." 

Romans 10:15

 

Feet!  How can they be beautiful?  Beautiful means pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically. Aesthetically means to give pleasure through beauty or a pleasing appearance.  This scripture is saying that people who share the good of the Gospel of Christ have feet that give pleasure that's aesthetically pleasing to the mind and senses of the people.  How can that be?  Is there something here that I am missing?

 

At the end of the day when I take my shoes of to rest and take a look at my feet they sure are not that aesthetically pleasing to anyones eyes.  Let's not stop there, the aroma is certainly not something you would want to put in a bottle and use as a perfume.  Have you ever really took a good long look at your feet?  Five toes sticking off the end of a foot with ugly looking toe nails. What is it that is so beautiful about the feet?

 

As you now know I am willing to study any subject if it will help me communicate the Word of God. So I did a study on feet, and I was amazed to discover how very important feet are to the human body. Our feet will carry us the equivalent of five times around the earth in an average life span. Yet, we barely pay attention to them.

 

But did you know that if you were to lose just a little toe on one foot, you would have to learn to walk all over again? Doctors know that feet are mirrors of our health. Oftentimes signs of diabetes, arthritis, circulatory or neurological diseases often appear in the feet first.

 

The foot consists of 26 bones, all of which are vital to body balance in the ability of the body to walk. One foot problem can literally stop you dead in your tracks. Corns, bunions, athlete's foot, gout, ingrown toenails, turf toe, heel spurs, or stress fractures can literally put you in a wheel- chair.

 

In fact, can you guess what is the number one cause of foot problems? The number one cause of foot problems is wearing shoes that don't fit properly.

 

Well, God is concerned about your feet. But for a totally different reason than why we may be concerned about our feet. Because He is not only concerned about what they wear, but where they go. We find that God thinks that a certain kind of foot is beautiful. Now I have never seen beautiful feet, but God says the feet of anyone who takes a person anywhere to share with anybody the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ, are beautiful feet.

 

Now many prophecies have both a literal meaning and a spiritual meaning. The literal meaning of this verse refers to the heralds that proclaimed to Jerusalem that King Cyrus had permitted the Jews, who had formerly been captives in Babylon, to return to their native land.

 

But it also has a spiritual meaning. We know this because Paul quoted this verse in Romans 10:15 concerning those who preach the gospel. Whether your feet carry you across the street or around the world to share the gospel, you put your best foot forward when you take a step toward missions. With that thought in mind, let us think about the feet of a missionary.

 

In the last century A. W. Milne visited a part of New Guinea that was inhabited by cannibals. Darkness was thick in the air, but through his preaching one after another these fearsome cannibals became humble servants of Jesus Christ. When he finally ended his ministry and was buried in their midst, they placed a marker on his grave with this inscription:

 

Here lies the remains of A. W. Milne,

When he came to us, there was no light,

When he died, there was no darkness.

 

We need to be carrying the light of the world to a world steeped in darkness, and every time we do, no matter to whom, when, or where, we are then putting our best foot forward.  Beautiful are your feet!