Thursday, August 14, 2025
How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. Romans 10:14-15
Beautiful Feet Bring Good News
Paul has just finished telling the Israelites about how they can trust in God: If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9-10 They were still hung up on trying to do enough or be good enough for their salvation and Paul’s heart was broken at their unbelief. Now Paul is pointing out that unless they believed in God, they were not going to call on him. Unless they know who God is, believe he is who he says he is, and trust him, they will not be saved.
The responsibility comes back on those of us who are already Christians to take the truth that saved our lives to the lost ones in this world. And how can they believe without hearing about him? Paul is saying that it all goes back to the spreading of the gospel, and preachers must be sent. Disciples must be sent. God calls them and we (the body of Christ) send them.
Paul is specifically speaking about preachers, but Jesus gave all Christians the Great Commission - Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 27:19-20
Our testimonies of how God has changed us and what he has done in our lives needs to be shared. Maybe you don’t have an amazing story of transformation. Maybe you have been in church from the time you were born, became a Christian, and have been in a steady relationship with him since then. But you still have the greatest story of all time to share. God has changed you and he has worked in your life. Sometimes we have to take a minute and reflect on our lives, and we can see the hand of God. That is still a powerful testimony and good news that a lost and hurting world needs to know.
We have been entrusted with the most glorious truth anyone can ever hear, and we have been equipped with the power of the Holy Spirit to share it. Paul says that we can either go or enable others to go and share the good news. But we have not been given the choice to do nothing. Jesus commissioned us that very same day he commissioned his disciples to take his truth to the ends of the earth. When we share his truth, we are giving them something they can believe in, call on, and be saved.
