«For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland» (Isaiah 43:19, NLT).
Rahab had everything going against here she was a woman in a patriarchal society: she was an Amorite. and therefore a member of a heathen nation; and to make matters worse, she was a prostitute! No one expected much from her. If Rahab had caught a sexually transmitted disease and died young, no one would have been surprised. If she had been found beaten and unconscious in an alleyway, no one would have paid much attention to her. What was truly surprising, however, was that Rahab became an exemplary woman of faith. who married a leader in Israel and became part of Jesus’s genealogy. Not even the movie “Pretty Woman” has such a drastic change. God’s grace is outrageously generous!
The message of Rahab’s story is clear: your past does not determine your future. God did not settle for saving the lives of Rahab and her family. God did not tell her: «Alright, I saved you from dying in the city, but don’t expect anything else. Since your past is so horrible, Rahab, now you must settle for begging among these people.» No! God’s grace is outrageously generous. Not only did God save her, but He also gave her an extraordinary future. Rahab married Salmon, one of the spies, and gave birth to Boaz, who would later become Ruth’s husband.
Your past does not determine your future! Sexual abuse, emotional mistreatment, abandonment, addictions, bad decisions…It really doesn’t matter what lies in your past; what matters is who holds your future. God’s salvation is much bigger than our sins (or the way others sinned against us). God’s plans are infinitely bigger than our past and more powerful than any trauma we may have experienced. This morning, as you look at yourself in the mirror, before leaving home, I want you to see a beautiful woman, with an extraordinary future. Because, as Preston Sprinkle writes in Charis, you bear a crown of glory and honor. The King of creation placed it on your head. When you look at yourself in the mirror and see scars and pimples, abuse, loneliness and pain, the Lord sees glory and honor. Your past doesn’t determine your future. It’s God who determines your future!
Dear Lord, thank You for your outrageous generosity.
Thank You because it is You, and not my past, who determines my future.
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Take From: Devotional Thoughts for Women 2022
«NO FEARS»
BY: VANEZA PISSUTO
Collaborators: Alexandra Perez & Angelica Cuate
