Joshua 2

Joshua 2 -

I can't help but mention again the beauty of Rahab's story.  The very fact that she HEARD about God...she didn't experience God.  She didn't see God.  She HEARD about God.  And it melted her heart.  Andrew Murray's book on humility is a book I am reading right now with a friend.  In the book he says, "and so it follows that nothing can save us but the restoration of our lost humility, the original and only true relationship of the creature to its God.  And so Jesus came to bring humility back to earth, to make us partakers of it, and by it to save us...Jesus' humility gave His death its value, and so became our redemption."  Humility is the "secret answer" so to speak.  Satan got us with pride and God is redeeming us through humility.  Thus, Rahab knew that she could never save herself from the hand of God unless humility played a part and it did by her hearing about God and trusting in Him.  And by trusting in Him, her life was spared.  I like to think that I can get through my problems on my own but I am not strong enough and yet I try...PRIDE.  It is an attitude of recognizing my brokenness and knowing that there is nothing I can do except lay down myself before Him who can do all things.  When I truly do that, He takes over...which He is really good at.  Rahab submitted herself to a God she heard about and He took over.  I have a relationship with that God and yet I get in the way...unique.  Let's lay down who we are and let God tell us who we are!  He's got it all taken care of and we just need to trust.

"To need God is nothing to be ashamed of, but is perfection itself." - Soren Kierkegaard