Beautiful

I wrote this song for some dear friends, part of our church family, who sensed a call back to the international mission field (they had served in Cambodia before becoming a part of our church family in Canada.) We prayed with them as they began the process of discerning where God would have them serve next. During a conversation one day, I asked them to share with me some of the scripture that God had used to call them into missions, and one of them shared a passage from Romans 10. In this chapter Paul shares his heart that his own people (the Israelites) would come to faith and be saved. As a part of that discussion Paul lists the conditions necessary to call on Christ and be saved. This list is found in Romans 10:14-15, and is the verse that Go used to call them to Missions and upon which my song is based:

¹⁴How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"



I sat down one afternoon and started strumming some chords and humming a melody with the intention of working these words of scripture to fit. To my surprise I did not have to work very hard at all as they seemed to just fall into place. We sang this for them the very next Sunday at their commissioning service.
It took about a year of prayer, a time of family grieving after the loss of a nephew, more prayer and then a time of training but God finally reveled to them a place to serve and they have been overseas serving for almost six months now.

"Beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"