Rahab

Joshua 2:1-6 (CSB) - Joshua, son of Nun, secretly sent two men as spies from Acacia Grove, saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a woman, a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there. The King of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelite men have come here tonight to investigate the land.” Then the King of Jericho sent word to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they came to investigate the entire land.” But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from. At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!” But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

Rahab, a prostitute, made a decision that was to change the course of her life and her destiny. I have come to the conclusion that she was one of the wisest women in the Bible. She saw an opportunity and grabbed hold of it with both hands.

As seen in the above passage, she hid the two spies and kept them from being captured and killed. Once the danger passed, she helped them to escape from one of the windows in her house, using a scarlet rope.

Here is why I think she was smart. Before she released them, she extracted a promise from them that when they came in to take over the city, they would save her and her family. They promised her that if all of her family members were in the house with her when they came through and the scarlet cord was hanging from the same window through, which she had let them down, her household would be saved. Here entire family was saved because she followed the spies’ instructions.

Please ponder and meditate on this?

What are you willing to do for God?