{"id":2002,"date":"2020-04-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2020-03-27T05:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:36:13","slug":"who-is-the-coolest-prostitute-of-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/who-is-the-coolest-prostitute-of-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS THE COOLEST PROSTITUTE OF THEM ALL?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. \u201cGo, look over the land,\u201d he said, \u201cespecially Jericho.\u201d So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.\u201d (Joshua 2:1 NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
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There\u2019s no right answer to this question, but one of my favorites is Rahab.  She is in the lineage of Jesus. She is a heroine who saved the spies Joshua sent into the land.  She saved her family with her heroic actions. She was a prostitute who was wiser than anyone else in the city.  She was following God. I\u2019ve always thought Rahab was cool. Rahab, the prostitute, was a woman of God.
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Rahab, the prostitute, was a woman of God.<\/strong>
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Of all the people Joshua could have sent the spies too, he sent them to Rahab.  Joshua was chosen by God to lead the Israelites after Moses died. Therefore, we can assume, Joshua was a man of God.  So Joshua, man of God, sends the spies to the only woman of God in the entire city, Rahab the prostitute.
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The reason why I love Rahab, and all prostitutes, is because I\u2019m just like them.  I\u2019m an imperfect woman. I\u2019ve made bad choices at different points in my life. But praise Jesus, He loves me anyway.  I may not have done what Rahab did for a living, but that doesn\u2019t make a difference. We are all sinners in need of redemption.  
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We all have done things in this life we regret doing.  We\u2019ve made choices we wish we could take back. We will make choices in the future we will regret.  But when we begin to comprehend the love Jesus has for us, we\u2019ll begin to follow Him more. As we follow Him more, we\u2019ll start to do what He did.  When we begin doing what Jesus did, we\u2019ll start making better choices. Just as Rahab and the sinful woman did.
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Rahab understood God\u2019s love for her.\u00a0 She did what He wanted her to do. She hid the spies and helped them escape.\u00a0 She made a good choice for her life and the lives of her family. She saved them all with\u00a0 her obedience to God. The sinful woman understood Jesus\u2019s love for her. That is why she fell at his feet, wetting them with her tears, anointing them with expensive oil, and drying them with her hair.\u00a0 She was preparing her Lord for what was coming, His death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you understand the depth of God\u2019s love for you today?
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Further Reading: <\/strong>Deuteronomy 34:1- Joshua 2:24 NIV<\/a>, Luke 13:22-14:6 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 79:1-13 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 12:26 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThen Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. \u201cGo, look over the land,\u201d he said, \u201cespecially Jericho.\u201d So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.\u201d (Joshua 2:1 NIV) There\u2019s no right answer to this question, but one of my favorites is Rahab.  She is in… Continue reading WHO IS THE COOLEST PROSTITUTE OF THEM ALL?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}