Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaim peace! Nahum 1: 15
Recently, my wife and I resumed our evening hikes up a hill to the Batu Berangkai waterfalls, on the southern fringe of Kampar town. The slow, short hike takes us about twenty minutes to arrive at the lowest and the most popular section of the falls, where we'd sit down quietly to watch the water tumbling and rushing down over the smooth slippery rocks, while some families and young people take a dip in a quiet pool nearby.
Most of us hike up the cool narrow winding road to keep ourselves fit. My wife and I think it's good for our hearts, literally. After returning home, however, I am reminded of another part of my body that supported me all the way up the hill, but which I have not been very mindful of. They are my feet. My beautiful feet.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." Is 52: 7
The same pair of feet which faithfully brings me up Batu Berangkai appears to have been taken for granted and neglected for some time now. And the Bible says I need to pay some attention to my feet, by carrying the gospel along with them as I hike up the next hill in life.
When Joel prophesied about the great and terrible day of the LORD, saying that the sun will turn to darkness and the moon to blood, he wrote that all who call upon the name of the LORD shall be delivered from the terror. Joel 2: 28 This prophecy is later explained and expanded on further by the apostle Paul in Romans 10, as follows:
But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!" Rom 10:14, 15
We are reminded to pay some attention to our feet, to keep them in good shape, by always being prepared to preach the good news , the glad tidings of our faith to people around us. Indeed, " . . . having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace;" (Eph 6: 15) is part of the armour of God that Paul commanded the Ephesians to put on in their Christian lives.
Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" Isaiah 40: 9
So, Christians, let us renew our attention to keep our feet beautiful, to put on the footwear of proclaiming the gospel. Let us get up on the mountain and lift our voice again.
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