Have you ever walked into a room and felt like the one person who doesn't belong?
Everyone else knows the words. Everyone else has the tidy history. And you're carrying something you'd rather nobody found out about.
Today we meet Rahab. She had no religious training and no good name, and she is the last person anyone would have picked. But after Jericho falls, Scripture gives us one quiet sentence: she lived among the Israelites. Not near them. Not on the edge of the camp. Among them. And her story doesn't stop there - she turns up again on the first page of Matthew's gospel, in the family line of Jesus.
God doesn't simply forgive our past. He weaves it in.
Today's Scripture: Joshua 6:25 (NLT)
Your step today: Stop editing yourself before you come to God. Find two minutes in the car or in the kitchen and say the truest thing you can - not the tidy version, the real one.
And if you've walked with God a long while: think of one person who arrived with a messy history. Learn their name. Make room at the table.
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