Unfortunately, we were having one of our own low moments. Technical difficulty prevented us from uploading audio from this sermon.
When you have low moments, moments of fear, doubt, anxiety, stress, etc… what do you do? In the 4th week of Highs and Lows, William Chavula preached a message that gave us a fresh look at Rahab’s story. As she is one of the most colorful characters in the lineage of Christ, when we learn about Rahab, we tend to focus one two things. One, Rahab was a prostitute (and an enemy prostitute no less.) Two, even so, she placed her faith in God. In this sermon, William took us past this surface reading of Joshua 2 and into the hearts behind the characters.
The people of Jericho were trembling in fear at the oncoming Israelites; Rahab responds to her fear in a unique way that results in her salvation. What can we learn from Rahab? When Low Moments come at us, when the world wants to make us melt in fear, we ask three questions.
- What are you hearing? (Whose voices are you listening to?)
- What are you responding to? (Are your responding to faith or are you responding to fear?)
- What are you still doing here? (If God has given you an opportunity to get out of the low place, have you chosen to stay in it? Why?)
Once we have asked these questions, we can respond to our low moments differently. We can respond to our low moments like Rahab, who chose to place her trust in the God of Life rather than in the fear she could see.
In the Highs and Lows series, we are going through the book of Joshua. Together, we examine the ever varying seasons of our lives by using the Bible’s story of the Israelites entering the land of God’s promise as a mirror. Reflected in this story we will find moments of celebration, of crisis, of faith, of doubt, of winning, and of losing. Sometimes we will find highs and lows both in the very same moment. A new generation of Israel wrestles with themselves and their leader, Joshua, to trust God and go where he leads them. We, too, wrestle with our own faith (or lack thereof.) No life is devoid of highs; no life is devoid of lows. And no life is devoid of God if we choose to open up our eyes and seek him, no matter where we are on our journey. Welcome to Highs and Lows.
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