Feet? I Feel So Sorry For My Self!

FEET? I FEEL SO SORRY FOR MYSELF?

ARE WE SO EMPTY THAT WE CAN NOT UNDERSTAND? SO BLIND WE CANNOT SEE? SO DEAF WE CANNOT HEAR?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (Two part lesson)

As children we sang: Watch your feet, watch your feet where they go. For the Father up above is looking down with tender love. So watch your feet, watch your feet where they go…

WHAT IS THE HARDEST WORD TO SAY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

SUPERCALIFRGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS… (1964--- Mary Poppins). It is not a real word. The longest Real word: ANTIDISESTABLISHMMENTARIANISM (against establishing churches) Well those sure are long words but they are not the hardest word to say in English. The hardest word to say: NO! NO! You will find it hard to say NO!

COME LET US REASON A POWERFUL LESSON ON FEET!

*FEET: 26 bones in the feet, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, your feet contain 250,000 sweat glands, shock absorbers, UNDERSTANDING, moral conduct, moving, coming, what we stand on, what we walk on, a steady base. YOUR FEET REPRESENT YOUR GOALS, OBJECTIVES, VIGILANCE, READINESS AND PREPAREDNESS.

GOD KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT YOUR FEET ARE TO YOU! PART OF OUR SPIRITUAL ARMOR PROTECTS OUR FEET…

Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

MY FEET ARE SLIPPING! FOCUS! I ALMOST MISSED IT! I WAS FEELING SO SORRY FOR MYSELF.

IT WAS 95* AND THE GRASS HAD TO BE MOWED. I was a young pastor of a small forgotten mission work in east Kentucky. I had a junk lawn mower that had one wheel broken off the deck. The mower was so hard to start. Once started the mower smoked like a freight train. I was sweating a river. Once the mower was started you dare not turn it off. It hurt to mow because where the missing wheel was gone you had to hold that side up to mow level. I WAS FEELING SO SORRY FOR MY SELF. I was pondering quitting and returning back to teaching school. I was mowing the hill side. I thought I was going to pass out. So I just sat down to cool off. I had a small New Testament and Psalms in my pocket. I opened the Book to Psalm 73.

Psalms 73 was not written by David. This chapter was written by ASAPH. Asaph was a worship leader for God. He was a talented singer and could play beautiful music. This chapter opens with a lesson about FEET… ASAPH’S FEET WAS SLIPPING… ASAPH WAS GOING TO MISS HIS TARGET. He was going to fall flat on his face. He was doomed to failure.

Psalm 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

MY FEET ARE SLIPPING? IS THIS THE END? WHY? ON WHAT AM I FOCUSED? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ASAPH?

ASAPH’S FEET WAS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE. ASAPH STARTED WATCHING PEOPLE AND COUNTING MATERIALISM AS HIS GOAL… DON’T MISS IT MY FRIEND. ASAPH QUIT SEEING GOD AND WAS CLEARLY FOCUSING ON PEOPLE… WE MUST ESTABLISH OUR FEET ON THE ROCK, MAKE UP OUR MINDS AND STAY FOCUSED…PUT YOUR FEET DOWN ON THE ROCK…

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

What is the bottom line ASAPH? Are your feet going to slip? No, Asaph learns TO KEEP HIS FEET PLANTED. We must STAY IN THE PRESENCE OF A HOLY GOD. God is my dwelling place. LET US ANCHOR OUR FEET AND STAY NEAR GOD! God is my rock and my shelter in times of storms. ASAPH LEARNED THE LESSON: IT IS WHERE YOU PUT YOUR FEET.

TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES --- YOU ARE STANDING ON HOLY GROUND…

The burning bush opens Moses’ eyes AND EARS TO THE MOVE OF GOD…

Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

* Elizabeth Barrett Browning penned these words: EARTH IS CRAMMED WITH HEAVEN, EVERY COMMON BUSH AFIRE WITH GOD, BUT ONLY HE WHO SEES TAKES OFF HIS SHOES; THE REST SIT AROUND AND PLUCK BLACKBERRIES.A

THOUSAND MILE JOURNEY STARTS WITH ONE STEP. IS THERE TRUTH: THAT YOUR FEET WILL TAKE YOU WHERE YOUR LOVE IS?

Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

WASHING OF FEET? HUMILITY, SELFLESS LOVE… WE ARE ALL EQUALLY IMPORTANT… SERVANTS OF ALL…