Faith’s Hall of Fame: The Wall to Redemption
Sin builds walls—walls between you and God, between you and others, and even walls around your heart, hardening every part of your life.
Faith’s Hall of Fame: The Wall to Redemption
Hebrews 11:30
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.”
Scripture portrays sin as dark and deadly. It’s an invader that builds its home in the heart of God’s treasured creation. Once it’s there, it grows stronger until it completely masters you.
Sin builds walls—walls between you and God, between you and others, and even walls around your heart, hardening every part of your life. And those walls must come down.
Here’s where Rahab’s story becomes such a powerful picture of faith. There was no land more depraved than Canaan. And the first stronghold in that land was Jericho—a city fortified with impenetrable walls.
Within that city lived a woman with perhaps the most hardened heart imaginable: a prostitute—tarnished, used, and discarded by the world. She was nothing. But God made her something.
Rahab lived within the wall of Jericho (Joshua 2:15). She wasn’t just near the wall—her home and identity were built into the very structure that represented pride, resistance, and rebellion against God.
Yet it was this same woman, whose house was literally embedded in the wall of defiance, who became the first person in the city to submit to the God who would bring it down. She believed in His power before a trumpet sounded, before a shout was made, before a single step was marched.
Rahab’s faith turned her from a symbol of rebellion into a vessel of redemption. She helped bring the wall down.
Her story is your story and mine. Every one of us must tear down the walls around our hearts, submit to the God who reveals Himself, and allow Him to save and redeem us.
Rahab—a lowly harlot behind the wall—found new life in God. Once the wall fell, she became the great-great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of Jesus Christ Himself.
She went from harlot … to the line of the Messiah.
That’s the story of redemption from God’s point of view. There is no one too low. No one too far. No one beyond the reach of God’s transforming grace. No one whom God cannot turn into something great.
