(Luke 10:25-36) When God gave us the command to love Him with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourselves, He wasn’t putting any conditions on loving our neighbors, that wa exactly Jesus’ reason for the parable. With it becoming dangerous to even stop by the side of the road to help someone, even helping strangers in general, we feel as though we can no longer be good Samaritans. Is our faith so small that we can’t put our trust in God for His safety even in light of the potential danger of helping strangers? When the Samaritan man helped the injured man, he was taking a social risk yet he was still following God’s command.

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(Matthew 1:1-17) What is normally pointed out in this passage is the strange fact that Matthew includes 4 women in the geanology of Christ. These 4 women weren’t the most prostegious women in the line either. No one knows for sure why they were included, except to perhaps point out that God can use anyone to carry out his plan.

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(Joshua 14:1-15) In this breif passage Caleb, one of the the people Moses sent out to scout out the land, came to Joshua to ask for the land that God had promised him. Why had God promised him that land? Before the Isrealites were forced to roam the wilderness for fourty years it was only Caleb who had faith in God to turn over the promise land to the Isrealites. The other scouts that had also gone out had little faith and caused fear to come over all of the Isrealites. Caleb had a heart full of faith and confidence in what God could do to bring the Isrealites into the new land, and it was through that God blessed Caleb with a long life and a promise of lands for his tribe.

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(Joshua 2:1-21, Joshua 6:15-25) What stood out to me today was how this story showed both how the Isrealites were faithful to the promise made to Rahab, but ultmiately how this also showed an example to God’s faithfulness to fullfill the promise He made to give the Isrealites this land.

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