Bad History? No Problem

One day, I was reading the Genealogy of Jesus. Because Jesus was Jesus, His Genealogy was impressive.   As expected, it has the heavy weights of the Bible in that list. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David…

  

But in that Genealogy, inserted in various places, are four women: Tamar, Bathsheeba, Ruth, and Rahab. Tamar slept with her father-in-law. The story is so distasteful, I don’t want to write it down here. Just read Genesis 38. The second woman is Bathsheeba, an adulteress.

 While her husband Uriah was fighting in the battlefield risking life and limb, she was lying on the king’s comfortable bed making a baby.  Not a very good wife, if you ask me. Next was Ruth. She was a Moabitess widow.

  

That may mean nothing to you. But to the Jew, she meant bad luck. Let me explain a bit about the Jewish mindset. In their thinking, a foreigner was not saved. Not chosen by God. Not favored by God.

And to top it all, Ruth was a widow. She may have brought bad luck to her husband, that’s why he died.

And finally, there was Rahab. She’s a prostitute. A foreigner, too. Oh my gosh. Whoever Angels were in God’s Selection Committee for “Ancestors of Jesus” fouled up big time.

Here’s my question: Couldn’t God have selected better women to be in the bloodline of the King of kings? Perhaps a woman who didn’t cheat on her husband? Or a woman who didn’t sell her body for money? But all of a sudden, my heart is flooded with hope.

Imagine. If God found these four women good enough to become the blood ancestors of Jesus, He can really use anyone.

He can use us. No matter what kind of ugly past we have. 

In God’s equation, our past doesn’t matter.What is important is what we do now.

Have an amazing Feast today.

Bo Sanchez

PICC Feast Builder

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