Promised Homeland

 DEVOTION

JOSHUA

PROMISED HOMELAND

Josh 6:22-25

22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her." 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel. 24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho — and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

NIV

Of course, Rahab lived among the Israelites to this day, as they lived in their Promised Land, their true homeland. She was to become the mother of Boaz, the kinsman redeemer. Still, more importantly, he was the father of Obad who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David, whose throne would be the throne forever, as Jesus came through the line of David, and thus through the line of Rahab who was spared when Jericho was completely destroyed. Let us use this to see that we are now in the line of Jesus, because He is in us. We are in Him, as He has stated as John records in his gospel. Jesus also said that if we remain in Him, He will remain in us. He are co-heir with Jesus and we could then say that we are in the same family, as we are in the family of God, with the right to be called children of God. In some sense, we are in the line of Rahab, but it goes back much farther, as we are in the line of Abraham, Noah, and Adam, unlike those before us who died, we will live forever with our Lord Jesus. We all have a human heritage, an ancestral line that some can trace back perhaps five, six, or even maybe ten generations. Most of us are proud of our ancestry with the ability to know our ancestral homeland, and when they migrated to this country. However, we are both proud and humbled that we are true ancestral line is in Jesus. Our humility comes from the fact our salvation is a free gift from God because of what Jesus did on the cross. But we should also be more proud of being in the line of Jesus, than all our other ancestors. He came from the true homeland that we will someday live in, as He is coming back to take us where He is so that we will live with Him. That is the Promised Land, our Promised Homeland, for we already live in the kingdom of God. Rahab was saved and lives with Israel to this day, and we are saved and will live forever in our promised homeland.