8/8/2009 8:08 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Covenant Faith
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Joshua 2:15-24
Message of the verses: “15
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was
on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall. 16 She said to them, "Go to the hill
country, so that the pursuers will not happen upon you, and hide yourselves
there for three days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on
your way." 17 The men said to her,
"We shall be free from this oath to you which you have made us swear,
18 unless, when we come into the land,
you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us
down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and
your brothers and all your father’s household. 19 "It shall come about that anyone who
goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his
own head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood
shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. 20 "But if you tell this business of ours,
then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear." 21 She said, "According to your words, so
be it." So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet
cord in the window.
22 ¶ They departed and came to the hill country,
and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers
had sought them all along the road, but had not found them. 23 Then the two men returned and came down from
the hill country and crossed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they
related to him all that had happened to them. 24 They said to Joshua, "Surely the LORD
has given all the land into our hands; moreover, all the inhabitants of the
land have melted away before us.’”
This
section tells about the covenant that Rahab makes with the two spies and the
sign of the covenant was a scarlet cord or rope, probably the rope that she
used to let the spies down with. The
scarlet cord is a reminder of blood which was the sign of the covenant that the
Lord made when He had the children of Israel put the blood of a slain lamb over
the doorposts of their homes in Egypt so that the death angel would Passover
them. There were other signs spoken of
in the Bible, the rainbow, circumcision, the wine and the bread. There were also covenants between people in
the Bible, the covenant between David and Jonathan comes to mind.
It is also
important to remember that Rahab’s faith was not in the sign of this covenant
that she had with the two spies, but in the Lord whom she feared and whom she
would get to know better as her faith and walk with Him grew. Rahab demonstrated great faith as she left
the cord in her window, and as she told her family what was about to happen to
this city, for one of the members of her family could have gone to the king and
told everything to him risking the life or Rahab and the rest of her family.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: My faith rests in the Lord and not the sign
of the New Covenant, but in what the Lord did for me on the cross and the fact
that God raised Him from the dead in order to prove that His sacrifice was
accepted for payment of my sins and now He lives in heaven to make intercession
for me and will one day return to the clouds above the earth to take me to be
with Him forever.
My Steps of Faith For
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Put on the spiritual armor: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Keep a short list with the Lord of sins and trust the Holy Spirit to search my heart for unconfessed sin so that I can confess them to the Lord.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today and to bring someone into my path who needs to hear the Gospel.
8/8/2009 8:40 AM
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