look beyond our biases

We all have places where we have learned to disregard people based on things we’ve been told are “bad.” Where might you slow down and take a look at people and see the faith in their works instead?

James 2:24-25

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road?

Lordy, every time Rahab is mentioned, they have to add, “the prostitute.”

Ok, ok. We get it. Rahab had sex for money, necessities, or even survival.

It starts to feel shaming - insinuating that this is the worst thing that Rahab could do, and I don’t like it.

In this passage, though, where the focus is on how faith without action is meaningless, the point is that Rahab’s sex work is not the works that God cared about. It mattered that she protected God’s people from harm.

We all have places where we have learned to disregard or judge people based on things we’ve been told are “bad.”

Where might you slow down and take a look at people and see the faith in their works instead? 

—Theo Isoz