Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies...
"Scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho"
So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.
Joshua 2:1 NLT
Not a bad strategy if you want to hide two strange men in a town probably of 2-3,000 people - hide in plain sight at the home of a prostitute...but more importantly God uses the unlikely.
David was the smallest & youngest when the oldest & strongest had most value
Jesus was the son of a single mother who's dad was just a carpenter from a town where nothing good ever came...
God uses the unlikely
And if we let Him, he'll use us...
#unlikely
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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