The scripture I gave you yesterday about the "tired hands and the shaky legs" was a new one for me.  I must have read it before, because I have read Hebrews a number of times.  But the words "tired" and "shaky" never registered.  Maybe because I didn't used to be tired and shaky and worn out.

That's the reason we don't stop reading the Bible.  There is always something new.  We call it "The Living Word" because it is always telling us something that we never noticed before.  It's alive.

After naming a large number of men who were saved by faith, Hebrews 11: 11, 31 gives us the name of two women named in the group:  "Through faith Sarah received strength to conceive, (at an advanced age)"  and also, "By faith--because she believed in God and his power, Rahab the harlot did not die with all the others in her city when they refused to obey God, for she gave a friendly welcome to the spies."

That should give a lot of hope to any person who has failed in their life along the way.  Rahab was not condemned because of her sin, she was saved by her faith.

Her story is told in Joshua 2:1 and 6:17.  Joshua sent two men into the promised land to spy out the people and when the two were in danger of being  caught, Rahab came to their rescue.  She hid them under a stack of flax on the roof.  She told the men who were looking for them that she didn't know where they were.  When the danger was gone, Rahab said, "…I know that the Lord has given you this land…we have heard how the Lord dried up the …Red sea for you…"

The two men were very touched by her kindness and promised to save her and all her family when they invaded the land.  Which they did.

Sometimes we overlook people who are not acceptable.  But God looks on the heart.  Rahab had a heart to trust God.