Rahab - A Person with a Past

This Advent our theme is "Grace Required: the Family Tree of Jesus." We are looking at the stories of the people who make up the family tree of the Lord Jesus. This week: a Canaanite prostitute in the city of Jericho named Rahab. You never know where a new believer may come from. But you will come to recognize them by the shape of their faith. Rahab was an unclean person with a soiled past. She was afraid of the God of Israel and his people. That fear matured into faith and she married into the community of Israel. Jesus came at Christmas so that he might cover over our shame, deliver us into his love and give us peace and joy, as a gift. All this, only when we believe. If you are hungry for the grace of God, "Come and get it!"