Dusty Trails
Just shake it off, that dust from your feet. Simply shake it off. This concept, from a familiar passage of Scripture, was illuminated by God for me through a Bible Study I am doing with a small group The Scripture is:
12 Greet a household when you enter it,13 and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it. But if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
(Matt. 10:14-15 HCSB)?
Its context is the sending out of the 70 disciples. The author went on to share how that dust of rejection, if not shaken off, can cling to you and really affect how you walk.
“To be given authorization to shake off rejection and disesteem is no small thing, it helps rescue the servant of Christ from a victim mentality. I get to choose whether or not this rejection accompanies me down the road. I refuse it the right to cling to my feet and affect how I walk. Rejection will not be my…
