Beautiful Feet Bring Good News
Month 10: Telling the Good News · Memory Verse
Today's Scripture
Read together: Romans 10:14-15
14 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Memory Verse
“How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? 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 (BSB)memorize this week
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: Isaiah 21-24
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 293 of 365 — Isaiah looks ahead to the day the Lord rescues His people.)The Heart of It
This week's verse is built like a chain, and Paul walks us backward through the links. People can't call on Jesus to save them unless they believe in Him. They can't believe unless they've heard about Him. They can't hear unless someone tells them. And no one tells them unless they are sent. Now trace that chain forward, and you discover something wonderful. God's plan to rescue people who don't yet know Him includes ordinary believers. It includes believers who are willing to be sent and to speak. God could have written the gospel across the sky. Instead He chose to send people. He chose to send you and me.
Then Paul says something surprising. He says, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace." Feet aren't usually the part of us people call beautiful! But in Paul's day, a runner's tired, dusty feet were a thrilling sight. They meant a messenger was racing in with important news. To God, the most beautiful thing about a person can be that they went and told someone the best news in the world. That news is this: Jesus died and rose to make peace between us and God. You don't have to be famous or grown-up or perfectly brave. You just have to be willing to go and tell.
Around the Table
God says the feet of people who tell about Jesus are beautiful! Even your little feet can carry good news.
Let's do it: Wiggle your feet and say, "My feet can go tell about Jesus!"
People need someone to tell them about Jesus before they can believe. That someone could be you.
Let's talk: If telling people is part of God's plan, what happens if everyone stays quiet?
The verse is a chain: someone is sent, they preach, people hear, they believe, they call on Jesus. Each link depends on the one before it.
Let's go deeper: Where do you fit in that chain right now — are you mostly receiving the news, or starting to pass it on?
💬 Conversation Starter
If you got to be the one to deliver the best news ever to your whole street, what news would you wish you could shout?— God already gave us news that good!
🛡️ Defending the Faith
Some people think God should just zap everyone into believing. But God made us with real choices, and He honors them. He invites. He doesn't force. That's why He sends messengers instead of overriding hearts. And that's why your kind, true words actually matter ().
For Dad · Go Deeper
It's worth slowing down on the logic here, because protects us from two errors at once. It refuses the idea that God secretly saves people apart from the gospel being heard. After all, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (). And it refuses the idea that we're just spectators. God genuinely sends and uses us. Grace really is offered to all, and that grace can be received by faith when the word is heard. As a father, you are the most strategically "sent" person in your children's lives. No missionary on earth has more access to their hearts than you. So don't outsource that to a Sunday program. Be the messenger with beautiful feet right inside your own front door.
Draws on: Tony Evans, Kingdom Disciples.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, thank You that I get to be part of Your plan to reach people. Make my feet beautiful. Help me go and tell others about Jesus, the Prince of peace. In Jesus' name, amen."
God's rescue plan has a place in it for me — to go, and to tell.