Worship for Today: All creation is at the disposal of God.

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Joshua 2:9,

 

"I know that the Lord has given this land to you 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."

 

Rahab was a woman of faith. She is the only woman recalled by the writer of Hebrews, by name, as one of the great people of faith in Hebrews 11 (unless I missed another one in the list.) Possibly this comment of hers in Joshua 2:9 is what stands out, identifying her as a person of great faith. She acknowledges that the Lord had given the land her people occupied to the Israelites.

 

Her comment to the spies reveals that she knows the land is God's to give, and that he gave it to her people's adversaries. All creation belongs to God and it is at his disposal to do with as he pleases. If he has decided to give some land to the Israelites, so be it. Creation exists at the pleasure of God, including not just the land we stand on, but our lives as well. We all belong to God, saved people and unsaved alike. Paul makes a point of this as he discusses God's choice to reserve for himself all who will embrace him in faith and cast the rest into an awful fiery lake of burning sulfur. 

 

Paul says, "One of you will say to me: 'Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?' But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? 'Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?" Romans 9:19-21. As the Creator, God has the prerogative to do with it as he chooses and he has chosen those who will embrace him in faith.

 

At times I fail to recognized what this prostitute knew to be true. I forget all I have and all I am is his. There is simply nothing I have that is not temporarily on loan to me. It is all God's.

 

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
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