The Shoes for Christians
By W. T. Bartlett
EVERY man who wants to walk in safety through this present evil world must pay heed to the instruction to have his “feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” Eph. 6: 15. Whoever leaves these shoes off when he goes out as a Christian worker will soon find himself forgetting his mission, and wrestling with flesh and blood. As long as we have these shoes on, no matter where we go, we shall stand in peace. We may be surrounded with storm and tumult, but our feet will be resting on the peace of God, and by means of these shoes, we shall take that peace wherever we go. These shoes are a part of the armor that Christ wore, and it was these that enabled him to stand so quietly among supercilious opposers, to carry peace into the midst of roaring seas and demoniac madmen, and to stand before his unjust judges without answering their falsehoods. Nor is their virtue merely a passive one. The wearer is carried by them where the wicked are who know no rest, preaching peace to them that are near and to them that are far off. The gospel of peace is no gospel unless it be proclaimed, for gospel means glad tidings. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.”