Category: 2022 – Hall of Faith

Moses’ life fell into three forty-year periods, marked by these key themes:

1. Apart from God:  Moses was raised in Egypt as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter
2. Questioning God’s Call:  Moses escaped to Midian after murdering an Egyptian (to defend an Israelite)
3. Led God’s People:  Moses led the Exodus from Israel then in the wilderness

Can you relate to any of these phases?  What can you do to demonstrate confidence in God where are you are today?

Moses’ journey—especially in questioning God’s call—can be compared to that of Thomas Edison, the great inventor.  Edison once suffered a great loss when his labs in New Jersey were destroyed by a fire in 1914.  Walking through the rubble of what had once been his workplace, the 67-year-old said, “There is great value in disaster. All of our mistakes are burned up. Thank God, we can start anew.” Like Edison, Moses was given opportunity to start anew and he successfully completed the assignment God gave him.

The faith of Moses brings us to the place of enduring confidence in God through a difficult season or an entire lifetime.

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Rahab, the last person the author of Hebrews talks about in any detail in his gallery of faith heroes, is the one who seems least likely to be included in the list.  For one thing, she was a woman. In the Jewish culture from which the book of Hebrews emerges, men were usually picked first as models of holy living.

In addition, Rahab was a non-Jew (a Gentile).  Why would a Jewish teacher writing to a Jewish audience pick a non-Jewish example of fearless faith?  But the main reason she seems least likely to appear in Hebrews 11 is that she was a prostitute.  Notwithstanding all of that, Rahab demonstrated outstanding trust in God with a remarkable act of courage.

Rahab’s story reminds us that no one—not even our enemy, as Rahab originally was to the Israelites—is beyond God’s reach.

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