I want beautiful feet!

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!" Isaiah 52:7

Beautiful feet?  I am usually pretty grossed out by people's feet to be honest. I think about feet more than I did in America now though. See, in Chinese culture it is polite to remove your shoes when entering a home. You then place some "House Slippers"
on your feet. You don't even want me to begin telling you some of the things
that your shoes have been touching while walking on the streets, so while living
here you see the purpose in removing your shoes and happily embrace the "slippers".
It may be true that the slippers have been worn by 87 people before you, but you
will take your chances.
I have always admired those freshly pedicured toenails happily smiling through glittered flip-flops though. I don't have those kind of feet at all! Mine are more like short little stubs that God decided to make just long enough to enable me to keep balance. But forget the way my toes look in summer shoes, I want the kind of feet that God says are beautifull!

I have always had a strong desire to share Jesus with people. However I have not always been good at it. To be honest, I have gone about it in some very wrong ways. I remember locking my neighbor friend in my bedroom closet as a child because I was unsure about her eternal destination. I gave her strict orders that she was allowed to come out after I felt sure her confession to love Jesus forever what honest and true, not simply to get out of the closet and run home to tell her mom that her Christian neighbors were crazy folk!
That story makes me laugh now and as far as I know she isn't in therpy ~ shew!
Even though my "Methods" needed some fine tuning, my heart was in the right place.

I love the way Luke puts it ~ “Go into the highways and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”
Acts 2 shows us the passion that Peter spoke to the crowd with ~  With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."

Jude puts it like this ~ Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.

See, the closer I get to Jesus, the more aware I become about the eternal destinations of those around me and I am burdened by this. I want beautiful feet, I really do! I want to spend my energy sharing Jesus with people around me. I simply can't think of any better way to "Spend" my life.  I think about ways to share, I pray about ways to share, I read about ways to share....I want to be good at it!

I don't claim to have arrived in this area, all I am saying is I want to get better and better at sharing Jesus in a clear and compelling way. 2nd Thess 3:1 "Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord's message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you."
Something that I am learning though, is that once we settle once and for all in our minds that people will indeed reject the message then it helps to remove that fear. It's gonna happen! Not everyone is going to accept Jesus gift of salvation, His word tells us that. We have to determine ahead of time that we are just going to keep "Fishing". If I were really fishing and didn't catch anything after 10 minutes I would never think to simply go home because "Oh well, I tried". I would wait it out. That is how evangelism is. You just determine to be a voice for the Lord, ask Him to help you, then you share, and you share some more, and you keep on sharing...and look for the ones who's hearts are have been prepared to receive the Words of life.
The harvest is ready, someone is ready! That's a promise, don't forget it. Someone is waiting to hear those Words of life, that you hold so dear. Chances are they don't even know. How can they know if they have not heard?

"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord." Romans 12:11

If you feel your zeal starting to fade, spend time simply thinking about the cross, the Good News and all that happened on that wonderful day.

 (The best and clearest way that I have heard the Gospel explained is through the Way of The Master ministries ~ You can find more info here www.wayofthemaster.com)
Sometimes when we have been Christians for a while, we think we are beyond simple Gospel truths and we spend time going "Deeper" ~ and while it's true that we need to "Grow up and mature in the Lord" we should never be so mature that we lose the child-like, heart-melting, overwhelming understanding of all that we were offered because God paid our death penalty on the cross. It was Good News 2,000 years ago and it's still Good News today! So let's share it, and share it again and keep on sharing it, until we see Jesus face to face!