FEET LIKE UNTO FINE BRASS

Today, we come to the Lord’s feet. It is a good place to be, for here we can be both learners and worshippers.

When He was here in the world, His feet were ‘straight’ feet, ‘pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold’, S. of S. 5. 15. Listen again to the ever obedient Son, ‘I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following’, Luke 13. 33. Thus, He was the immoveable Servant sent from the Father, always in the path of His will. Those lovely feet were ‘shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace’, Eph. 6. 15. We follow them and note reverently where they took Him in those days of His flesh: a manger in Bethlehem, a Jordan in righteousness, a wil­derness in testing, the villages and towns, highways and byways in shepherding the needy and lost. They were defiant in the house of His enemies, yet unswervingly obedient to Gethsemane, Gabbatha and dreadful Golgotha. It is at Calvary that men finally declared their assessment of Him when they nailed His hands and His feet. In their minds they said, ‘We will halt this man and stop him here’. All certainly in vain, for in resurrection He stands amongst His own and says, ‘Behold my hands and my feet’, Luke 24. 39.

John bows to gaze yet again at those feet, not now sandaled and dusty with the travel on an earthly road, but they are of the most refined material having been through the fire. Now, they are ‘brass’; this metal which in the Tabernacle’s brazen altar withstood the fires that consumed the offerings, now typifies the wrath of an offended God. The Lord now treads the road of inevitable and resolute justice, not that of grace and reconciliation. Nothing can halt Him until all is done, for God must be vindicated and unrighteousness removed from the universe. In the day of wrath these feet will mean eternal judgement to those without His salvation. Pray that such might turn to the only Saviour of men and find Him even today. Pray that we also, as pilgrims here, might walk in grace and ‘follow his steps’, 1 Pet. 2. 21.

When the last enemy falls they become the footstool of His feet ‘that God may be all in all’, 1 Cor 15. 28.