Your Feet Can Leap For Joy!
7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."—Isaiah 52:7 (ESV)
Have you ever jump in the air because of excitement felt over an event or experience? I am sure all of us at one point have “leaped for joy” during a moment of exhilaration. In order for us to leap for joy, we need feet! Feet are necessary part of the body to move us from one location to another. Feet set us toward a direction. Feet are necessary for the gospel. Yes, it is true that some people don’t have feet, but nonetheless, this is a connection of your role in helping others leap for joy. Feet and joy are two different subjects. Not necessarily! Isaiah and the Apostle Paul link the two ideas together. Paul picks up the passage in his letter to the Romans in chapter 10. He links confession of Christ in vv. 9-10 with the call for people to exercise their feet so that joy might be experienced. However, they are both linked together. The lame is joyful when his feet are cured and he is able to walk again or walk for the first time. Or consider the great truth in Luke’s gospel when he announces that there will be “leaping” in heaven (“Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.”-Luke 6:23)
Our future reward again connects truth to eternity. The Gospel brings joy so that we may leap for joy. There is a connection of our reward in heaven and the happiness for those who hear the gospel. People leap for joy because the Gospel liberates a sinful life to a joyful life. Drooping people become leaping people! One of the roles that we have is connecting people to the message of happiness which proclaims peace, happiness, and that God reigns over suffering, pain, and discouragement. What better way for the believer to use their feet as bringing joy? The Gospel makes a person leap for joy!
How beautiful are your feet in bringing joy to others? When was the last time you helped someone else leap for joy? Knowing that God is sovereign to open the heart of man and cause his gospel to be fixed in them, our role in bringing the gospel is also pivotal. The scripture says we have beautiful feet. We are God’s agent of the Gospel that brings leaping joy to people. Consider your feet which have ten toes as special devices to bring a leaping joy that can be experienced because God’s grace has been tasted and it is much sweeter than honey!
© Joel Badal. Copyright March 24, 2011. No part of this document may be reproduced without consent of the author.
