Lesson 9: A legacy forever

Read Joshua 24

Rahab did not know, when she started seeking God and learning to trust Him, all the things He would ask of her. She did not know that one day her name would be written in the Bible in the list that we call great people of faith, in Hebrews 11. She did not know God would place her into the ancestry of the greatest king Israel had – David, or that she would be one of only four women named in the ancestry of the coming Messiah.

She lived the life God provided for her after she left her city and her former life. She became a wife and a mother, and I am sure she became a sister to her husband’s family as well.

How often we think that, just because we have chosen to believe in and follow Jesus, He now will make our lives extraordinary and wonderful and better than the lives of people around us. But Jesus does not save us, cleanse us from our sin, and give us eternal life just to make this life more satisfying or to make us happier here on earth. He saves us for an eternal life with Him, and this time on earth is our only chance to build a trust in Him that will last forever.


Our lives here will be the same as other people’s lives – daily duties, learning, school, family issues, job problems, arguments from/with neighbors or friends, and all those things that come with life here. We will be cold or hot or sick or diseased, we will not know what to do in many situations, we will be confused about things, we will misunderstand or hear wrongly, we will have others angry or jealous with us, we will have someone who wants what we have and try to take it away. Our problems will be part of life as long as we live on this earth.

But problems should never be a cause for us to be afraid or discouraged for long. We learn to take our problems to Jesus, and ask Him to help us work through them. As we learn to walk with Him, we learn to trust Him. This is called faith.

Just as Rahab’s legacy was something she never could have imagined, Jesus has something waiting for us in eternity we cannot imagine now either. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:9, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” Make learning to trust Him more the focus of your life. Every joy, every sorrow, every trouble, every success has only one purpose in your life – for you to trust Him more deeply.

*How will your life change if you make your relationship with Jesus the most important relationship in all your life?