Saturday, December 13, 2014

Old sinners like me...

No one (not even my own worrisome nature) can ever tell me that God doesn't use old sinners like me...  There are too many women in the bible who the Lord redeemed out of wicked lives, and set them on beautiful paths of righteous grace, in order to glorify His name. I love that He loves me so much, and that because of the Cross, I am a trophy of grace...perfection rests in His work on Calvary and not on feeble flesh. I fail him and make bad choices, but so did so many others.  We have to reap what we sow and move on, seeking to daily serve the one who delivers us and keeps us no matter what.

This was awesome...

Excerpt from
https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-women-bible/Rahab

The threefold reference to Rahab in the New Testament reveals how she became a faithful follower of the Lord. She had been taken from the dunghill and placed among the saints in the genealogy of the Saviour (Matthew 1:5 where Rachab [kjv] and Rahab [asv], are to be identified as the same person). Her remarkable faith was a sanctifying faith leading her to a pure life and honorable career. As the result of her marriage to Salmon, one of the two spies whom she had saved, who “paid back the life he owed her by a love that was honourable and true,” Rahab became an ancestress in the royal line from which Jesus came as the Saviour of lost souls. “Poor Rahab, the muddy, the defiled, became the fountainhead of the River of the Water of Life which floweth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” Her name became sanctified and ennobled, and is worthy of inclusion among many saints.

Paul highly commends Rahab for her energetic faith and gives her a place on the illustrious roll of the Old Testament of those who triumphed by faith. “By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she received the spies with peace” (Hebrews 11:31). What a suggestive touch that is, “with peace.” There was not only faith in her heart that God would be victorious, but also an assured peace when she hid the spies that her deliverance from destruction would be taken care of. She knew the rest of faith. In fact, Rahab is the only woman besides Sarah who is designated as an example of faith in the great cloud of witnesses. What a manifestation of divine grace it is to find the one-time harlot ranked along with saints like Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses and David

1 comment:

  1. So encouraging!! Praise the Lord!! : ) I too am thankful that He..."is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," (Ephesians 3:20).

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