He Gives Me a Change of Shoes

Key Verse: Psalms 40:2-4 (KJV) “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”

I have never been a high heel dress up kind of girl but I do love a great pair of boots. Give me boots over heels any day. Give me the real leather kind of boot with the cute buckles and just the right amount of a heel to make them super comfortable and I am in love. Fall is my favorite time of year and so out comes my chunky sweaters and my favorite pair of Frye boots to kick off every fall season. 

What I don’t like is mud on my boots. I hate that. I hate getting any kind of yuck or dirt on my boots.  I even like a great pair of rain boots but I hate getting them wet. I just like them to look cute with my favorite pair of jeans.

But you know something? Boots were actually made for the weather. All kinds of weather including the rain, the snow and all the muck that goes with it. Even mud.

The key verse says,

“He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings”. 

I paid close attention that the miry clay, muddy situation came before the rescue and the nice clean place to walk around and stand on the rock. 

No matter how many times I say “it’s not supposed to be this way” or “I don’t like getting my feet wet or stuck in the mud” it won’t change things.   

Sometimes life gets messy no matter what pair of shoes you choose to wear. 

We all find ourselves in those less than desirable situations from time to time.

The ones that make us cry out just like King David to be delivered. 

That unpleasant place where you find yourself surrounded by the clicks that either don’t include you or are constantly trying to pull you into all the gossip and negativity. 

The work place that wants “you” to do all the messy work and then the cute girl with those high heels we talked about takes all the credit. 

Sometimes you have that marriage situation that you just can’t seem to work through no matter how hard you try that keeps pulling you down in the pits. The more you move around in the situation the more you seem to get stuck in the same old muck and mire of arguing and shouting. 

Other times you find yourself in a state of loneliness where you just seem to sink lower and lower in the pit of despair. The muddy clay of grief and sadness clings to your heart and it grows colder and heavier by the day. 

Miry clay places where you can easily get stuck and feel like you are never going to get out.  

Miry clay places where you cry out to be delivered. 

The wonderful thing is that God does for his daughters the same thing he did for the king. He gets down in the miry clay with you and lifts you out. And then he sets your feet on a dry solid rock. A sure place to stand. That rock named Jesus. 

No matter what kind of pit we find ourselves in there is good news.

He hears our cries and rescues us. He rescues his princess daughters from the evil enemy.  Every. Single. Time. He cleans us off, sets our feet upon a solid place to stand and give me a change of shoes.

The Song of Solomon 7:1 says, “How beautiful are your sandaled feet,  O prince’s daughter.”

The way I see it….He gives me traveling shoes.

“Feet that are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” (Eph. 6: 15)

Princess daughters are never stuck.  He gives us purpose and just the right pair of shoes for the journey. Because we have places to go and people to see for our King.