F O O T H O L D
READING
72 CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?
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PRAY Help me to understand
more about you and your ways, dear God.
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READ Joshua 2:1-24.
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THINK A foreign prostitute
plays a part in the story of God's people.
What does this tell us about
God's ways?
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FOCUS Every day our lives
are based on trust. We trust that other
drivers will keep to their
side of the road, that the packet we
buy in the supermarket
contains what the label says, that people
we have arranged to meet
will actually arrive. But trust is a
two-way matter, and while we
are trusting others they, in turn,
are depending on us. So it
was with Rahab and the spies.
THE SPIES were in a strange,
possibly hostile country. Clearly
they needed somewhere safe
to stay, where no questions would be
asked and they would not be
distrubed. They find help from a
religious prostitute
attached to the local sanctuary. God's ways
are cetainly unusual! She
did a very brave thing, because if she
had been found out, she
would have been killed. But the spies
felt they could trust her.
Maybe it was becasue she seemed
trustworthy, and because of
their confidence that God was with
them.
RAHAB kept her part of the
bargain and helped the spies to
escape. She trusted that
they would keep their word because she
knew they served a God she
had learned to respect (9-11,21).
God's people should always
be trustworthy and dependable - in
little things as well as big
ones. If we are always forgetting
the things we are supposed
to be doing, people will not only be
unimpressed with God, whom
we say we serve.
In what situations and in
what ways might you be called upon to
be trustworthy today?
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PRAY Ask God to grow mutual
trust and reliability within your church
fellowship.
