This Week's Worship

When Fear Becomes Faith

Theme:

There is always uncertainty in our lives. We do not know what tomorrow will bring. That uncertainty can easily grow into fear, and sometimes that fear begins to weaken our faith.

In Joshua 2:9–11, we meet Rahab, a woman who was almost unknown in her time. Yet through her story, we learn how to face uncertainty and fear with faith.

Joshua 2:9-11(NRSV)

8 Before they went to sleep, she came up to them on the roof 9 and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land and that dread of you has fallen on us and that all the inhabitants of the land melt in fear before you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 As soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any of us because of you. The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below.