Contemplative Bible Reading

Joshua 2:8-11 (New Living Translation)

8 Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them. 9 “I know the Lord has given you this land,” she told them. “We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living in terror. 10 For we have heard how the Lord made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed. 11 No wonder our hearts have melted in fear! No one has the courage to fight after hearing such things. For the Lord your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below.

This is one of the occasions in the Old Testament when an average person speaks to a Hebrew about YHWH. There are many cases when a noble or royal, e.g., Pharaoh, speaks to a Hebrew, but not as many like this one.

Here we have Rahab, distinguished only by her vocation, speaking to the Hebrew spies about YHWH. Notice her testimony:

• YHWH gave you this land (that my people live on now)
• We are all afraid of YHWH and His people
• We live in terror
• YHWH made a dry path through the sea
• YHWH enabled you to completely destroy kings and kingdoms
• YHWH is the supreme God

Odd how an uneducated castoff from society knows so much about the God of an obscure people who have wandered the desert for two generations. Word seems to have spread.

Today, yes, I come back to today again, well, what can I write? It seems fashionable to deny the existence of Jehovah God and all other spiritual beings. It is fashionable to dismiss any “morality” taught be Jehovah. But perhaps those denials are only from the main-stream media. Perhaps the average person on the street believes differently about the supreme God.