Two spies

Remember Jesus' lineage from Matthew? Boaz, who married the foreigner Ruth and went on to be the great-grandfather of King David...well, guess who his mother was: Rahab, the prostitute.

The key is not that her life was spared, so that she could be a part of this line, but that she saw what God was doing in her midst and acted on it. Everyone else was freaking out, fearing the worst. She realized that God was the main character in this story and got on his team.

And God took her just as she was and made something beautiful of her life.

The same thing happened with Joshua. I wonder, when he sent out the two spies, if he thought about the time 40 years before when he and Caleb went out. They knew with confidence that God could take the land, even from giants (this is obviously pre-David and Goliath, but they did have the memory of the Red Sea escape). The apostles went out in twos also.

There seems to be something about life and faith that requires us to pair up and conquer the world...for God. We are to love God and each other or this thing doesn't work. Our Jewish friend, Jodi, got married on Sunday. She and Kevin are taking their faith on the road. I hope God blesses their adventure in the same way he has blessed ours.