Joshua 2

You see for me Joshua 2 has a few things worth highlighting.

1. I love that that Joshua knows which men to send in a head to check out the land. Joshua knowing what happen the last time men were sent in to look around, I am sure he did not take this role lightly when picking the two men to go into the city gates! But he makes this decision in what feels like no time at all. His walk with the Lord is so close that in a time for making a decision he knows who to send with no questions asked.

Is your walk so close to the Lord that making decision come easy? Decision making is from time to time one of those thing that we “Give to God” but in reality we keep praying till we get the answer we need or we finally find peace with Gods answer in our time. The hard thing about this is that we miss out on so much of God plans for our lives. Listening to God over a period of time is a good thing but sometimes listening to Gods will means dealing with it when it is not our will for ourselves!! It also means living in God’s time and not our own.

2. Rahab!!! I love that in Joshua one God paints this picture of being STRONG AND COURAGEOUS and then follows that up with Rahab. Rahab was willing to risk her life and the life of her family for doing what God called her to do. She took in two men that could have gotten her killed for being in her home, she lied to the soldiers to protect these men and then she hides in her house with her family while thousands are being killed outside her door. What a great example of a women to look up to. She was willing to risk everything for the glory of God.
I have struggled with the fact that she lied to the soldiers about the where abouts of these two men and the other day God laid this peace in my heart over the fact that in that moment that was what she needed to do to be in the will of God. While no I do not get that all the way I am willing to place trust in the Lord and take it has that Gods will for Rahab.
Because of Rehab’s willingness to take these men in and house then for one night she lived! How AWESOME is that God is great and mighty and if we do the same as she, take time to listen to what God is saying and act on it glorious things will happen in our heart.

3. I just recently learned that when you see LORD in all caps in the bible it is referring to Sheppard
Well you see this in verse 11, Rahab referring to Lord as Sheppard, and then later on she ask for kindness to be shown on her and her family. How cool is it take we can call on God by a specific attribute. We need to take the take to get know our God more personally and on a first name bases.
While giving out granola bars on the U of I campus I meet a ton of people, some I may never see again but some that I saw in the days to come! Knowing that at some point I knew their names and talked with them but not remember who they were the next time really was upsetting to me. So I gave myself a two time limit. If after meeting and having two contestations with them I should know their name! No questions and if I didn’t it was because I did not give the conversation all of my attention. How many conversations have you had with the Lord? Can you call him by name? Maybe we should have a two conversation limit with God as well. We need to be actively involved in getting to know our God and that means taking the time to listen to what he is saying and becoming familiar with who He is.

4. I am such a visual learner and terms that paint pictures in my mind mean more to me then most others. And in verse 18 Rahab is told to put a scarlet cord around her door as a visual meaning to leave her door alone! For me the first thing that comes to mind is a book called the scarlet letter. And while I wish I could say I read this, I wont lie…I did not…I probably spark noted the book or cliff notes. There are many options and I chose one and now don’t really remember that much HOWEVER!!! I do know that the lady was force to wear a scarlet letter that represented who she was and what she had done. In the book it is a negative, but here in Joshua it is a positive. To think this one color and one item defined Rahab for years to come.
Is there one thing right now that defines you?
Is there something from your pass that you feel people see when they look at you?
At first glance I don’t know if I would ever want one thing to depict me for the remaining time I am alive, but after thinking about it there is nothing I would want more then to be know as a daughter of the King. Someone who loved God with all her heart and that over followed to loving people in every situation. If that can be seen in one object and one color I will take it!!!