Daily Devotional for Sunday, March 10

Rahab’s Faith

“Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also,” James 2:25, 26.

You can tell ten people the same message, and a good percentage will not get it right. Sometimes environmental issues are the problem, such as noise. On the other hand, sometimes people do not listen, or they hear and choose to interpret your clear message differently than was meant.

In the story of Rahab, we can see this clearly. Everybody had heard of the coming Israelites; Rahab told the spies this. The coming army was no secret. Another thing that was not a secret was who was behind the success of the Israelites. Rahab told the spies this: “And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath” (Joshua 2:11).

Rahab knew little about God, but she knew that He existed, and she acted on her faith. Do you think God needed spies in Jericho to tell Him what was happening there? Of course not! God sent those spies for Rahab. Rahab reached out with her mustard seed of faith, and God responded by sending someone to tell her more. Rahab acted on her faith; she literally put her life on the line for a God she barely understood.

Even many “mature” Christians do not put their faith into action. James tells us what faith without works is, and that is dead. How strong is your faith? Is it alive, or is it dead?

JUST A THOUGHT
God does not expect the lost to understand much about Him; He just wants some faith, and later He will do the rest.

Wally Fry