Develop a Rahab Habit
- Tina Punneo
- Jun 12, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 25, 2019
If you know anything about Rahab, you probably know she was a prostitute prior to meeting the Israelite spies. I would say her life before encountering them and ultimately God was an empty life full of sin. But that all changed when she she had heard about this God of the Israelites.
More important than her past sins and mistakes is her redemptive story. Her story of how she stepped out in faith in this God that she heard of. She had faith in the one true God. She says in Joshua 2:11, "The Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath."
Her statement demonstrates faith.
I have a story like Rahab. No, I was never a lady of the night or anything like that, but I have a past. I have made mistakes and I have some bad habits that I tend to get caught up in. I’m sure you’ve been there too.
Rahab's story didn't stop with her sins and bad habits, it ended in her triumph of faith. In faith she hid the spies and let them escape down her window with a scarlet rope. That same scarlet cord was tied to her window to show her faith in the spies and in their God. So we to should not let our past sins define who we are and move forward in faith, courage and strength and let our story end in faith.
Rahab had a choice. She could’ve been afraid and let fear take over and turn the spies in. I think we often don’t do what God calls us to do out of fear and those habits of never stepping out and doing what God calls us to do set in. We get stuck in the mun
We need to be like Rahab and let down our scarlet rope in faith. Sometimes. our faith may be hanging by a thread, but if we trust in God it is enough, He is with us.
We need to develop a Rahab Habit.
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