Queen’s Breakfast 2017
When: November 20, 2017. 6:30 am Where: Royal Home Ministries Who: M25 Ladies hosting Residents Mission M25, led by Carolyn Burd will host the residents of the Royal HomeMinistries for […]
When: November 20, 2017. 6:30 am Where: Royal Home Ministries Who: M25 Ladies hosting Residents Mission M25, led by Carolyn Burd will host the residents of the Royal HomeMinistries for […]
Queen’s BreakfastThe Serving Ladies and some of the Served LadiesDue to security not all young ladies could be included in photoOn November 22, 2017, ten women from three different churches, The Journey Church in Siler City, NC and The Refuge in C…
Having a 65 year old foot takes up time that has been allocated for things like: reaching for success, doing good for others, growing in my Faith Walk, spending time with those we love, etc. It is very tiring and boring, getting the file out (looks like a grater for cheese), spending time ‘sanding’ the foot, a lot of time. Then there is the ointment, the creme to keep it from cracking. Today, during the boring task of restoring my feet, this text came to mind.
Just an ugly 65 year old foot |
Let’s put those text written in perspective to when they were written. Many had to walk everywhere they went. Plus they did not have hiking boots or high dollar sports shoes. No insoles made of memory foam, most were just sandals. Remember the environment, have you been to Israel? Have you seen the desert, the rocky terrain? What about those areas were the weeds are growing, climbing to En-gedi (it was muddy and slick with rocks and vegetation).
Sitting there, sander in hand, creme on the table beside the chair, all I could think was, ‘Really?’. Then the devotion the Lord had began to become clear.
As our feet get older, carry the scares of adventurous lives, show the stress of caring for family and friends, the burden of the load of serving in the Kingdom there were some warnings: The foot can become dry, cracked, rough and very ugly.
If the foot is not ‘sanded’, adverse situations grinding on the foot, it becomes so calloused and abrasive no one can stand to touch it, looking at it is bad enough. There should be a joy inside of us when we encounter adversity, it is removing the callouses, keeping us smooth. Preparing us to hurled into a world of evil as one of the smooth stones a Shepherd boy picked up, hurled toward a giant’s forehead which caused that enemy to fall to the ground.
The creme keeps me teachable and pliable in the hands of an Almighty God, the Holy Spirit. Can you see balm of Gilead in His hands rubbing it into the hardness of the callous and the pain the adversity to get me tender again. Callouses brought by so many miles of demanding, spiritual terrain that no one has taken the time to look at my ‘feet’ to notice.
Feet, who goes around looking at people’s feet? How many times have you seen people ‘model’ their feet? Oh, there is the craze of flip flops and women in open toed shoes but most of us men never care for our feet and never notice the feet of anyone else. Yet, it is the feet the Lord inspired the author’s to pen that was beautiful.
As the time came for the creme to applied, it said on the directions, ‘massage thoroughly into the skin and in extreme situations, cover with a cotton sock for quick healing’. Now, that is in incredible advise:
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