My reading for today: Joshua 1-6
Joshua 1-6
I’m still thinking about Rahab and God’s role in her life and her place in scripture. It’s just interesting to see how God can meet you where you are. Out of all the houses to choose to stay in, the spies chose the house of a prostitute. Perhaps doing so would arouse less suspicion since they were foreigners. Despite her profession, Rahad understood that ‘the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.’ Amen! I better know that. He is God over all. Whom and what shall I fear?
Even after Jericho had been destroyed and Rahab was spared and now lived among the Israelites, she was still referred to as ‘Rahab the prostitute.’ I don’t know if this was just a label she couldn’t shake off, or if this means something else. Nonetheless, I’m impressed that she knew God was God, and this belief saved her.
The journey of the Israelites in these chapters started in Shittim and ended in Gilgal. I now have the full context of the verse in Micah that says, ‘Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.’ It was an amazing journey, where God was in control and left no stone unturned to endure his people for where they needed to go, crossed the Jordan successfully and supernaturally. Crossed the Jordan without getting soaked in the Jordan. Unscathed. You must cross it, but don’t worry - it won’t kill you. The Lord, who is God in heaven above and on earth below, is in charge.
I’m still thinking about Rahab and God’s role in her life and her place in scripture. It’s just interesting to see how God can meet you where you are. Out of all the houses to choose to stay in, the spies chose the house of a prostitute. Perhaps doing so would arouse less suspicion since they were foreigners. Despite her profession, Rahad understood that ‘the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.’ Amen! I better know that. He is God over all. Whom and what shall I fear?
Even after Jericho had been destroyed and Rahab was spared and now lived among the Israelites, she was still referred to as ‘Rahab the prostitute.’ I don’t know if this was just a label she couldn’t shake off, or if this means something else. Nonetheless, I’m impressed that she knew God was God, and this belief saved her.
The journey of the Israelites in these chapters started in Shittim and ended in Gilgal. I now have the full context of the verse in Micah that says, ‘Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.’ It was an amazing journey, where God was in control and left no stone unturned to endure his people for where they needed to go, crossed the Jordan successfully and supernaturally. Crossed the Jordan without getting soaked in the Jordan. Unscathed. You must cross it, but don’t worry - it won’t kill you. The Lord, who is God in heaven above and on earth below, is in charge.
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