01-29-08 The campaign to set a woman free -- Hebrews 11:31
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient. -- Hebrews 11:31God is much more optimistic than most of us are. How many of us are willing -- even quick -- to write off certain people as hopeless, as beyond our help. But even as God planned judgment for Jericho, He was also determining how to rescue Rahab.
We think people are hopeless because we forget that the Christian life is a miracle. It is supernatural. It cannot occur without the intervention of God. But when God shows up, all the obstacles that defeat us are torn out of the way.Many invisible chains were wrapped around Rahab's life, keeping her enslaved. The campaign that opened the Promised Land, was also a campaign to set a woman free. It's no mistake that Rahab is mentioned in the ancestry of Christ. Jesus ignores the religionists and goes straight to work on the hopeless, because He brings hope to every broken heart.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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