Salvation Stories
Read Joshua 2:21-24
How were you saved? Did you grow up in church and accept Jesus in a
Sunday School classroom at a young age? Were you a teenager at a youth
event? Were you an adult who turned to Jesus as your last resort? Were
you alone in your room? No matter how you came to know Jesus, there was a
chain of events that led to someone, somewhere telling you about His
scarlet red blood that would change your life forever! Thank God for
those that are bold enough to proclaim the truth!
Tonight we read about the covenant that Rahab makes with the spies.
We also read that the spies go back and tell their commander in Cheif
"all that had befallen them". This means that they went back and told
Joshua and the rest of the tribe all about what they found in the
promised land. They tell them that all of the people there are afraid of
them. But they also tell them all about their experience with Rahab,
the prostitute.
We read back in verse 9 of chapter 2 that Rahab had already heard of
the things God had done for the Israelites. Now, because of the
dedication of the spies, Rahab comes to know, first-hand, the truth and
power of God. And through her display of courage in believing and
protecting the spies, she would hang a scarlet cord from her home that
would link her forever to her Messiah. The spies promise to protect
Rahab and her family also promises her adoption into the "family" of the
Israelites. Since the Israelites will be inhabiting the whole land,
this must mean that Rahab and her family will dwell with them and become
a part of them! That takes the promise to a whole new level, doesn't
it!! Just as I don't believe the chain of events leading to your
salvation were circumstance, I don't believe this chain of events was
either....
Let's go back a little further. A couple of posts ago we learned that
Joshua told the people they had 3 days to get ready before the entered
the promised land. Now, Joshua had just wandered around in the desert
for 40 years...why do you think he would need 3 additional days before
entering the land? God did for Rahab just what He did for me and you
when He sent those people into our lives to show and assure us of His
promises. God used those 3 days to have Joshua send 2 spies on a
reconnaissance mission that was so much more than they realized it would
be!! Their ultimate purpose wasn't just so they could scope out the
land....It was so that they could meet this lost soul, Rahab, and
comfort her fearful heart. So they could assure her of the Lord's
promises. So they could offer her protections and she could have the
opportunity to prove her faithfulness. Using Joshua and the spies as
tools, for those 3 days, God was just patiently waiting for one more
soul's conversion.
How humbling that He loves us so much that He would create a specific
order of events JUST so we come to know Him? Even more so that He would
choose to use us as tools in the events that He uses to bring others to
know Him.
Lord, help us to be faithful and courageous when you call us so that
we never miss a chance to be part of something so much bigger than us.
Let us look at every opportunity as an opportunity to be a part of
someone's "salvation story"!
If anyone is willing to share, I would love to hear your salvation story
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