The Busy Feet in Soul-Winning

This psalm is the seventh in the psalms of “degrees” or ascents. The number seven in the Bible is the number of perfection, and this seventh step certainly bears a perfection of meaning for the believer. We cannot be sure of the exact date and circumstance of its composition, but it speaks of the great joy that resulted from a great deliverance.

As we noted in last week's study from 2 Cor. 15:18-21, it is God's plan and mandate that we who have experienced His deliverance from sin and have been reconciled to Him should be the heralds of that salvation, the “ministers of reconciliation” to others.

How beautiful are the feet of the soul-winner (Isa. 52:7)! Paul was “minded to go afoot” from Troas to Assos” (Acts 20:13-14), a distance of 18-20 miles, so he could pray for the salvation of the Jews he expected to see shortly in Jerusalem. Philip went by foot from Jerusalem down to Gaza, which was desert, to witness to a solitary man riding back to Ethiopia in a chariot. Jesus went out of his way on foot to witness to, and win, a fallen Samaritan woman. How fitting that the woman told about in Luke 7 should repeatedly kiss those feet, wipe them with her hair, and anoint them with fragrant perfume from an alabaster box! Let us “go” with the Gospel in this new year!