Whose sandals are you?
Many many sandals and shoes around nowadays. There is really no short of brands like Birkenstock, Adidas, Quicksilver, Flash N Splash, and Puma. You name it. Ranging from the really expensive ones to the cheap-o ones. From the really excellent ones that last forever but stink badly like the army sandals, all the way to the ones that you use for only one month.
Some have more than one pair of sandals! The first one is to show off and the other one for bad weather like rain. The fashionable ones cannot get wet or else the color gets drained:( Haha. The bible talks about footwear too. One in Ephesians and one in the gospels. The sandals/shoe of Christ:
Luke 3:16 (New King James Version):
16 John answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Luke 3:16 (New Life Version):16 But John said to all of them, "I baptize you with water. There is One coming Who is greater than I. I am not good enough to get down and help Him take off His shoes. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Those sandals must have felt extremely good to be on Christ feet whom even John, declared that he is not even worthy to touch or untie! Imagine, the person whom Jesus declared as the greatest prophet (Luke 7:28) cannot even touch those things that move upon, mingle in and tread on mud and all the not-so-good-to-say grounds! It must have been some privelege to be on Jesus' feet. The great honor!
I was challenged to ask myself whose shoe/sandal I want to be? As a Christian I cannot aspire to be a sandal on someone who will not give me the promise of eternal life. The closer to Jesus the better. If not near His heart then possible near His feet. But even then am I able to be His shoe?If I want God to use me as His sandals, I know my talents and abilities dont count. What counts is my heart; My availability to God and my 100% away from this world and just set apart from Him!!
Then God by His love and grace, will pick me up from the sandals shop, put me through His special factory, put on me the best cushion, the best design and an awesome Energy that is way better than Nike "boing". Yeah!! Sandals for the ONLY ONE!! My surety is in God to the path that He will bring me too:)
Some have more than one pair of sandals! The first one is to show off and the other one for bad weather like rain. The fashionable ones cannot get wet or else the color gets drained:( Haha. The bible talks about footwear too. One in Ephesians and one in the gospels. The sandals/shoe of Christ:
Luke 3:16 (New King James Version):
16 John answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Luke 3:16 (New Life Version):16 But John said to all of them, "I baptize you with water. There is One coming Who is greater than I. I am not good enough to get down and help Him take off His shoes. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Those sandals must have felt extremely good to be on Christ feet whom even John, declared that he is not even worthy to touch or untie! Imagine, the person whom Jesus declared as the greatest prophet (Luke 7:28) cannot even touch those things that move upon, mingle in and tread on mud and all the not-so-good-to-say grounds! It must have been some privelege to be on Jesus' feet. The great honor!
I was challenged to ask myself whose shoe/sandal I want to be? As a Christian I cannot aspire to be a sandal on someone who will not give me the promise of eternal life. The closer to Jesus the better. If not near His heart then possible near His feet. But even then am I able to be His shoe?If I want God to use me as His sandals, I know my talents and abilities dont count. What counts is my heart; My availability to God and my 100% away from this world and just set apart from Him!!
Then God by His love and grace, will pick me up from the sandals shop, put me through His special factory, put on me the best cushion, the best design and an awesome Energy that is way better than Nike "boing". Yeah!! Sandals for the ONLY ONE!! My surety is in God to the path that He will bring me too:)
posted by Roti PraTa at 12:23 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home