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Romans 10:15 · World English Bible

Romans 10:15 Meaning And How Will They Preach Unless They

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

What does Romans 10:15 mean?

The feet called beautiful are the symbol of God's creative power in motion, the same power that is your own imagination acting. Feet carry a man, and here they carry the news that peace and every good thing are already yours to assume.

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The feet called beautiful are the symbol of God's creative power in motion, the same power that is your own imagination acting. Feet carry a man, and here they carry the news that peace and every good thing are already yours to assume. Being sent means the power comes from within, not from an outside authority granting permission; the one who speaks the wish fulfilled speaks from the only self there is, God as I am in you.

Glad tidings of good things is the announcement, made first in your own mind, that the desired state is already so. You cannot bring that news to yourself until you have been told it, which is why someone must say plainly that imagination creates. Once heard and believed, the message walks. The good report you carry inwardly about your own life is the gospel, and your feet are lovely the moment you assume the end already reached.

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Live Romans 10:15 today

  1. Before you open anything on your phone this morning, tell yourself one true line of good news about your own life, as a fact rather than a hope. Walk out the door carrying that report instead of the usual summary of what is wrong.
  2. Give one person actual good news today, out loud, with no warning attached. A text that says the thing you think is going right for them, not a comment about what they should watch out for.
  3. In a tense room or a tense thread, be the one who speaks the calm version. You do not need anyone to put you in charge of that. Say it because you are the one who sees it.

What good report about my own life am I keeping quiet about?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 8

The good carries itself without force, going where it is needed the way water does. Nothing grants it permission. It simply moves.

Buddhism · Metta

The kind wish is made first inside you, then it reaches outward without any announcement. What you hold for yourself is what you can honestly carry to anyone else.

Sufism · Rumi

What you are looking for is doing the looking, so the messenger and the message were never separate. The news you carry is the state you are already standing in.

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