Pretty Feet

At our Italian LifeTeam (small group), one of the men who we have asked you to pray for has been digging into the Word for months now. The man’s name is Dino. This fellow has not yet formally declared his allegiance to Christ, but he has been devouring the Scriptures and pouring out proper interpretation again and again.

Last Thursday, all of the LifeTeam members were present — even though they were all physically exhausted from work and other conditions. I digress for a moment. I want to give you a small example of how much of a blessing it is to see these Italians meeting together. What you don’t know is that one has lived in slave-like conditions for a long period, another is raising two teenage boys after their spouse died last year, another is newly pregnant (tired and sick), and another closed his factory early to be there.

For two hours they devoured the Word with fresh zeal after devouring fresh pasta. You didn’t realize that zeal and pasta go together did you?

In the course of the action of the moving Lord in their midst, the verse of Isaiah 52:7 came up, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

And Dino asked if he could share what he had come to understand about this verse. So he says, “The beauty lies in the message of good news. Really, the feet are not beautiful at all. They are the lowest part of the body. They get in the dirt and do the work. But when a person brings the Word of God in truth to another person, even their ugliest and dirtiest aspects become beautiful. That is the power of the Word.”

Now that’s beautiful! And to have Italian men richly pouring over the Bible in a Christian home is like a beautiful gem pulled out of a vast field.

Pray for two men in that LifeTeam to be saved — Dino & Giancarlo.

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