Throw Away People

John 4

The woman at the well – don’t know her name or much really about her. To many she was a throw away married more than once. And the man she was with was not her husband but still yet many probably saw her as disposable. Christ saw something nobody else did, faith that needed to be turned loose.

Judges 3: Rehab the Harlot

She had heard of the Israelites coming and how they have conquered other cities like Jericho. The spies found security in the presence of Rahab. She hid them in the roof. They made an oath with her that if she hung a scarlet cord from the window they would not kill her family and her. What a story of faith and where others saw a cast away or a disposable person God saw an opportunity to save.

We live a society that has become accustom to quickly disposal and get a new one over night. The need for instant gratification has become the king of our world.

Ruth 1

The very idea of her can make one to be a little in question about the need of who we are. Ruth the Moabite saw that she was not anything special but she saw the need to continue on. God takes the ordinary and leads them to places of great opportunity. For it is his pleasure I believe to take the ordinary thing of the world and confound the wise and includes those that would be thrown away from his view because the don’t have value to man.

Hopefully we learn form this that if we feel like that is us or we are just down and out or like we are throw away people. Remember God takes the foolish things of the word to confound the wise.