COMPASSION OVER CONDEMNATION

When Joshua sent spies into Jericho they lodged in the home of Rahab the harlot. Some ask, “Why did these spies commit immorality by going to Rahab's house?” Nowhere in the text does it say the spies committed immorality. Why would they stay at Rahab’s? Well, if you are visiting in Jericho for the night you're going to stay in the inn. Not everyone that stayed in the inn participated in the extracurricular activities and there's no hint in the passage that these spies did anything wrong. But I think there's a bigger reason they stayed there. I believe God sent these two men to Rahab the harlot as a divine appointment. The same thing happens with Jesus when he has a divine appointment with a Samaritan woman at the well who was also a very immoral person. What is a divine appointment? It's when God gets you at the right place at the right time to meet the right person to have the right conversation. I believe that God sent these men to Rahab the harlot because He had already been working in her heart. Why is it that in the church today our first impulse is to always condemn? Imagine how different it would be if our first impulse, rather than condemning, was compassion