26 Nov HOPE FOR ALL PEOPLE, HOPE FOR YOU

 The story of Joshua leading the people of God several times around Jericho until it completely fell down gives us a great element of hope. Though Jericho was a wicked city, and though Rahab, of all people, had a horrible lifestyle as a prostitute, for some reason, she was kept from falling with her own people. 

She saw in the spies of Israel the resemblance of their God, and despite her past and the environment she had lived in, she believed in that God, hid the spies, and sent them in peace, knowing that her own city would be destroyed. 

The red rope she put in her window was not only for Joshua and his army to know where she was; but also, God purposed that to point that in the future, one of her own descendants would shed His blood on her behalf, as well as on behalf of all those who believe in Him for salvation. 

Yes! Though she was a prostitute, and didn’t originally belong to God’s people, she made the Gallery of Faith in Hebrews 11, showing the world that the Gospel is not for the people who think they are pure, religious and holy on their own.

Jesus Christ was the One who said, while eating with sinners, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:18).