Seventh-Day Adventist Devotional For Children: “An Unusually Ally”

*DAILY BREAD – A DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN*

Eastern Nigeria Union Conference Children’s Ministries

*THEME: I WILL GO*

Monday, March 21, 2022

*Topic: An Unusual Ally*

_I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. — Joshua 2:9_

God was not pleased with prostitution in biblical times any more than He is now. But the spies stop at the house of Rahab, a known prostitute. Since the spies were seeking information, they may have felt it was a safe place to gather facts without being questioned in return.
Rahab took a great risk in hiding the two Israelite spies. She did that because she recognized the Israelites could not have crossed the Red Sea or survived forty years in the wilderness on their own power. She saw that God was the source of their strength. Though she was an outsider from Jericho, she under¬stood who God is and what God can do.
Through the grace and mercy of God, this woman who was a prostitute and an outsider served as a witness to truth and a model of faith. God used her story to remind Israel that they were not chosen because they were a great and mighty nation; they were chosen to be God’s people because of His compassion and mercy. God chose Rahab too. Rahab became an ancestor of David.
The nature of Rahab’s business made her home the only place strangers could stay without attracting attention. However, the LORD knew Rahab’s heart was open to him, and He used her to help the Israelites win the victory over Jericho.
Rahab is an ancestor of faith. She saw that God was doing something new in the world, and chose to be a part of it. Rahab’s story shows that God will help us when we want to start doing right. No matter how we have sinned in the past, God can help us if we surrender to him. We can choose to open our hearts to Him too and be a witness of the truth of Jesus. Surrender to Jesus today and be part of something new God is doing in our world – hope to His return to reign forever. Come, Lord Jesus!

*Song*
All to Jesus I surrender;
all to him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust him,
in his presence daily live.

Refrain
I surrender all, I surrender all,
all to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender;
humbly at his feet I bow,
worldly pleasures all forsaken;
take me, Jesus, take me now.

*Prayer*
Father, I surrender my life to you, forgive my sins and I pray that the eyes of my heart may be opened to see you and your plan for our world. Let your will be done. In Jesus, Amen.