Sandals…

 Sandals….

I am meeting with a representative from Because International this morning…this ministry has designed shoes/sandals for children in other countries around the world…there are 4 sizes , but each of these sizes can then be adjusted into 5 mores sizes…so they can be handed down and used by several people…they are given out in various countries, added to the  Christmas  boxes, and just partner  ministries who serve around the world. Last year 103,548 pairs were given out…

Reading …

John 18:1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.

I thought of these shoes…shoes are mentioned throughout the Bible, Moses, Ruth, Amos and just everyday living…having been to Israel, I can’t imagine what having no shoes would be like, it is such rocky soil…

In the Bible times, the most used mode of transportation was feet…some people had wagons, donkeys, the military had some other modes as well…but feet were  the most used…and sandals were the fashion…it is amazing when we think about the abundance of footwear we have to choose from now!….

I would speculate that by the time Jesus was carrying his cross up the hill to his crucifixion, he was barefooted,, adding yet another agony to that event…as his robe was gambled for…

Sometimes we don’t appreciate the little things like shoes that we have , while others would love  to have the luxury of something to protect their feet from parasites, rocks, etc…

I loved the story in Luke 24, the road to Emmaus….the men were walking and along and Jesus joins them for the walk, explaining the scriptures to them…just think what those sandals could tell…

Thank YOU… 

At Your feet…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olujOC2YouA&list=RDolujOC2YouA&start_radio=1

“Sandals apparently were worn in Palestine from the earliest times . . . though ordinary persons are generally represented as barefoot . . . . Shoes were also of symbolic significance, as may be seen from the legal practice of presenting the shoe to confirm publicly the renun- ciation of levirate marriage rights or obligations . . . (Deut. 25:9;2

Ruth 4:7). To be unsandaled was to be dispossessed . . . .

There is no word in Hebrew that connotes wearing shoes, but there is one for being barefoot. "Yahef" is defined in Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon as fol- lows: "to be without shoes. The ultimate root lies in the syllable chaf, chet, peh, and the primary notion is that of peeling, removing the bark of shell."

This implies that being barefoot was being deprived of normal dress.

There are instances in Scripture where "shoe" comes into some promi- nence. (1) In the customs of levirate marriage (Deut. 25:9, Ruth 4:7); (2)

at Moses' theophany at the Burning Bush (Ex. 3:5); (3) in Amos (2:6).” https://jbq.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/351/351_shoe2.pdf

https://www.saxum.org/the-journey-of-jesus-and-his-disciples-from-the-upper-room-to-gethsemane/



Jerusalem…

Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Route taken by Jesus and His Disciples to Gethsemane