Read: Joshua 1-4
It is finally time to enter into the promised land after 40 years of wandering in the desert eating only manna. When Moses came to the promised land the first time he sent out 12 spies, one from each tribe and only two came back with a good report so Joshua sent out only two. They were hidden safely in the house of Rahab the harlot. She told them how her people were afraid of them and their god because of the stories they had heard of what he did to the Egyptians and the two Amorite kings. She made them promise to save her and her family. The spies were let down to safety by a scarlet threaded cord which they instructed her to tie to her window so they would know it was her house and she and whoever was in the house would be saved. That same scarlet thread that saved the spies and Rahab’s family is still saving people today. That cord was Jesus. Through Rahab’s cord (family line) came Jesus.
We have no idea the importance or the destiny a person carries, but if we love one another like we love ourselves and honor every person we meet, we may be entertaining angels unaware. No doubt we will be ministering to Jesus himself by ministering to His body. By saving Rahab, they saved her whole household just like the jailer who was saved who attended Paul when the earthquake shook Paul’s chains loose. Paul told the jailor, “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be save, and your house.” (Acts 16:31). The jailor brought Paul into his house, fed them and all his house believed in God, vs. 34.
Lord, give us faith to believe that all things are possible to them that believe.
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