When God Grips
Primers
Devotions are primers:
What is a primer?
Definition of primer
a small introductory on a subject
a short informative piece to stimulate you toward some ideas
Stimulate your thinking and actions to consider these things to go dig deeper. I'm going to prime the pump but you need to keep it fueled and in the right watering hole.
Devotions are intended to stimulate and prime your mind and heart to reflect on a greater source, subject and service to the Lord.
Rahab — Gripped by Glory
Rahab... what a sweet testimony of the redeeming interruption and permanent invasion of God's grace.
This woman, Rahab, which her name means broad/wide or large, goes from being a canaanite•pagan•gentile•prostitute to a woman of faith, a wife and the great great great great and so on...grandmother of both David and Jesus. I think her name represent more of the width of her testimony than her body size. And I'm pretty sure her name and immoral work was well known in Jericho—but because a grace, and her acts of faith, her name and favor with the Lord has been widely spread across the globe and throughout the ages.
That's right, grace... God's redeeming grace in Christ, can take a wretch like me, a Canaanite harlot like Rahab and a sinner like you, and make a beautiful and broad testimony out our lives for His glory and the good of those around us.
Truth—that makes us free—always causes a crisis with our convictions before it breaks the chains of deception, pride and lies. Truth, measured out by God's redeeming grace, will take a bottom feeder like me and Rahab and make us into a blessing of God's faithfulness.
Rahab went from being a bottom feeding worm — gnawing |
