Pierced Feet of Jesus: Reflecting on His holy wounds

As we draw nearer and nearer to the sufferings of Jesus, and as we look more intently at His sufferings, we come to His feet today. We do not go by the Cross. We are abiding, waiting, and letting it speak.

This was written long before the nails were driven in:

They have pierced my hands and my feet. (Psalm 22:16)

Almost a thousand years before the Cross, the agony of Christ had been perceived, already uttered. There was nothing that was not intentional regarding His Passion. Even the piercing of His feet was not unknown, and even authorized, and even welcomed.

Those feet... they travelled miles to find the lost. They were with sinners without repentance. They went into houses, towns, and shattered lives. They did not hesitate. They did not avoid. They went into pain, not out of it.

And now, those same feet have been fixed.

Pierced.

Unable to move.

Something very personal is involved:

Our feet symbolize our direction. The paths we choose. The places we go. The life we build step by step.

And we have not always, to be candid, walked right.

We have brought ourselves where we ought not to be.

We are the ones who have entered into sin.

We have taken the ways that made us forget God.

All the steps of wrongdoings, all the wrong turns, all the wrong ways of disobedience, Christ puts on Himself.

His feet are pierced that our wandering may be atoned.

It is to have our direction restored that He permits His movement to be suspended.

The Cross is the point at which our procession is rectified.

There is also the Blood.

It pours out of His feet, beneath the wood of the Cross, upon the ground. This is not meaningless. This is reclaiming.

Where the sin had soil, Christ repossesses it. It is where the enemy was led to occupy the land by our decisions, that Christ occupies it by His sacrifice.

His blood marks a new path.

Not the way of sin, but the way of returning to the Father.

This wound was still there even after the Resurrection. Thomas was invited to feel it. To see. To believe. This was not hidden. The marks were still on the risen Christ.

Love does not make the Cross disappear. It fulfills it.

Now the question gently asks us:

- Where are my feet taking me?

- What paths am I walking daily?

- Am I drawing toward God or away?

- Are my actions an expression of trust, or are they an expression of distance?

Today, never turn your eyes away from Him whose feet were pierced.

Stay there.

May they speak to thy direction, thy choices, thy life.

And these feet were lifeless, pierced so yours might walk erect again.

And even today, He calls you to follow. Will you answer?

Activity: Before taking any decisions or taking up a new task, always first pray and seek the guidance& direction of the Holy Spirit.

God bless you.