Learning About Faith
Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there. (Joshua 2:1-2) Rahab is the last person we might expect to find as an example of faith; yet, there she is, a woman, a Gentile, a harlot! She is not the type of person we thought God could use, not someone we thought He would reveal Himself to, and certainly not someone we thought we would find in the lineage of Jesus Christ! We did not see her coming, and that reveals how much we have yet to learn about God, and about faith! If we read the scriptures carefully, we will find faith wrapped in the most unlikely packages. Take, for instance, the boy with the basket - “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?” (John 6:9) Yet Jesus would lift that basket up to the Father and feed five thousand...