Avoid the Foot Swell

Reading:   Deuteronomy 8

How would it be to walk for forty years without "foot swell" or to have clothing that never wore out?

DEUTERONOMY 8:4

4    Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 

The Israelites wandered, and wandered, and wandered...I can't walk 6-months without wearing out the soles of my shoes?   It is quite miraculous that these folks walked without "foot swell," for forty years!

Here is an additional verse with relevance to the feet...

1 SAMUEL 2:9

9     He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. 

I like this verse in tandem with the other because it makes clear that the Israelites could not have, by virtue of their own strength, survived in the wilderness.  The Lord, "...[kept] the feet of his saints" and that is the only reason they faired as well as they did.

Not much else to be said today - keep your feet!

~Kipling