WEDNESDAY - 28TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
JOIN YOURSELF TO THIS CHARIOT: RAHAB IN VIEW
READ Joshua 2
Matthew 1:5, KJV
"And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse".
This is the third woman who enters the lineage of Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham by perception and believe in who God is and is with. She therefore gets justified (Heb.11:31, James 2:25). One principle that is principal that I believe you should hold dear in deciphering who to go with or who to choose above others is, "who's God with?" "Who's God with" shows who has the future, the glory and the honour. He or she may not look so now but if God be for him and not against him, he or she shall become like Israel - a great nation made from one man.
After leadership has been established in Joshua's hands, he sent spies to Jericho. Somehow, the knowledge of these spies is known and the king declares them wanted. However, Rahab does the unexpected. She hides these stranger spies and protects them by the misleading information she gives to the king. Later on, she asks for a show of kindness in return from these two Israelites, telling them how much her entire nation fears them and how they have heard how God dried the Red Sea for them and how both Sihon and Og (kings of the Amorites) couldn't stand before them (Joshua 2:9-11). Looking at these indices, Rahab concludes with all faith that Jericho is already for the taking. More importantly however, she praises the God of Israel as the highest above and below. At the end, Rahab demands that she and her household be spared when Israel shall take the land. They struck a deal and a red or scarlet thread becomes the token. This is nothing but the passover lamb's blood that the angel of destruction passed over that night when final judgement was made on the Egyptians. God commanded it should mark their door posts. They request her to tie it to her window. This acts doubly predict Jesus' New Testament shedding of blood for our redemption and preservation. Whenever the blood or its sign is, it's always pass over. Preservation and sparing is enforced in the spirit. The spies say if they see the red thread by her window, they'll spare her and her household but if not, her blood shall be on her own head. Only that none of the people she wants saved must be found without her house. This is how Rahab meets with salvation and continues in existence even after the wiping out of Jericho. However, this is just Rahab's entry point into fulfilling one of her awaited destiny.
Nobody ever knew that Rahab would become a great grandmother of Jesus. If any predicts it that the swine would become useful as a holy thing, we might oppose it. However, from simple perception of who the Lord is with and is fighting for; choosing then to identify with such, she eventually ends up marrying Salmon, one from the tribe of Judah and eventually births Boaz, the very well to do man who marries Ruth and births Obed who birth Jesse, the father of David the King.
If you lack perception, you'll miss the moves of today and miss the moves of tomorrow consequently. Many times, one move will qualify you for many after it. If you enter into one correctly, that one will successfully hook you up to others. Rahab is a harlot and by the virtue of her job and operation of a public place where they drink and freely indulge in immorality, she must have gotten enough information on the situation of things around Jericho. It's in this her work place she got to know how the Red Sea was dried up before some certain people - an impossibility for that matter. There also, she learnt how great kings were conquered by that same people. Also, she hears that the victory of that people is in relation with a particular God that's greater than any. The very reason why in all their encounters, they've won thus far and always wins. Having learnt this, when the opportunity is availed her to meet those same people in persons, she proved herself worthy of them, partnered with them and showed her acceptance of them and their God. Perception didn't fail her. Another may dismiss that and choose comfort and certainess than strangeness of a new people. However, that's not Rahab. I could feel the sterness in her voice that day. To her, now is the time and today is the day that her salvation and that of her people must be sealed. In this way, a first class and notable prostitute crossed from darkness to light, leaving her past behind and like Ruth, chooses a new God, a new people and consequently a new path. Having being put in the status of an Israelite in the flesh, what stops God from identifying with her? No wonder, she ends up marrying Salmon, a man from the very tribe of Judah and who by the ordainment of heaven the lineage of the Messiah would be perpetuated and continued through. If Rahab had married from the tribe of Judah and not Salmon in particular, she couldn't have entered into Christ's lineage. Marrying a Christian assures you a measure of destiny fulfilment but marrying a particular Christian who's intentionally and fittingly assigned for you is what assures you of destiny fulfilment to its uttermost. At the time Rahab agrees to marry Salmon, there'll be other men from other tribes and then from the tribe of Judah itself but God is not working with any of them to perpetuate the Messiah's line. The lineage can only come from a line. The word "lineage" itself is a combination of two simple words: "line + age". Line means a focus, a restriction to somebody in a generation or a time which shall be continued by another in another generation or time. To this end, we are assured that whatsoever God does is good and upright. If you will discern of the choices before you who God is fighting for and is with and go with same even though he might not have found rest just like the Israelites at that time (though Rahab still sees the future and agrees to go with them), you'll be doing yourself a great favour. Just from that one step of obedience; just from joining herself to that chariot, she opens and avails herself to the Lord for the other things He could do with her. As far as we can testify as ministers of the Lord operating by faith, we do know if anyone believes and would profess Jesus as Lord and Savior, such shall not only be saved but shall have Christ as his hope of glory. Indeed, Rahab experiences this on her journey as she relocates her faith from idolatry and vain glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel. However, if your destiny handle or connector stands before you in spies that a cost is on their heads, will you believe them first as those with the future, glory and honour? If you lack perception and can't see, the future might as well fail you and slip from you. However, if ye shall see like Elijah told Elisha when he was to be taken away from him, "you and many others who shall see shall inherit the blessings of your seeing, perceiving and identifying with." Therefore, see and join yourself to this chariot on motion.
PRAYER: Lord, give me a donation for special awareness and conviction about that special handle to my destiny. Let me see rest in Israel even when he has not rested.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 10:32-12:21; Acts 18:1-22; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 18:1
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