Rahab the prostitute is another example. She was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road. 

Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.

James 2:25-26 NLT

James doesn't let this idea go without a couple of examples, Abraham and Rahab.

Abraham is the giant Totara in the forest of faith. 

And yet James ends this part of his letter with Rahab. 

Abraham in v21 has the label "our ancestor", yet Rahab carries the label of "the prostitute".

Abraham's story is famous, covenant, sacrifice, God's miraculous provision, faith...

It's all there. 

Rahab's story is small. We don't know what happened to her, it was a small part of the bigger story. 

And yet James seems to hold these 2 stories as being of the same value when it comes to living out faith.

James ends this part of his letter with what seems a small story of faith expressed in life, a life that carries labels that are seen as less than. 

Yet in the story of faith, those seen as less than, whose acts of faith are small, are valued just the same as the big and famous.

No matter what labels you may think your stuck with, the breath of your faith in action speaks life, it's seen, and valued.

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