SUNDAY - Devotional

READ: Joshua 2:1-11

(Answer the question/s below in your app notes)

• What was Rahab like? Why did God use her anyway?

There have been studies that show that we are drawn to people who physically look like us. Some studies even suggest that we subconsciously use the same criteria to pick our life partner! It sounds kind of crazy, but it makes sense on some level, doesn’t it? We’re comfortable with—even attracted to—familiar. And when things look, sound, smell, think, and feel like us, we feel more at home.

The dark truth of this reality is the flip side: that we often are apprehensive to trust people who aren’t like us. We are prone to be so much more suspicious, or even judgmental, of someone if they don’t come from a similar background as we do.

This is why the story of Rahab is so remarkable. Rahab was not only a woman in a rigid patriarchy, she was also a prostitute–someone that religious people would absolutely shame and shun. Yet God decided that Rahab was useful–just like God has dedicated all of us to be useful and valuable to the kingdom. God will use anyone who is willing. Are you willing to be used by God? And are you willing to accept the unlikely stars in the story of salvation?