Love Life

581 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 17:17-20, “Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed at En Rogel, for they dared not be seen coming into the city; so a female servant would come and tell them, and they would go and tell King David. 18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom. But both of them went away quickly and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it. 19 Then the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known. 20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" So the woman said to them, "They have gone over the water brook." And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. (2 Sam 17:17-20) This whole scene is reminiscent of the time that Joshua's spies were sheltered and hidden by Rahab in Jericho. In this scenario, the spies were told to not go into the city but to wait by the town laundromat on the outskirts of town. (En Rogel was the place where clothes were washed) A woman brings the message to the spies but unfortunately Absalom has a little rat fink nearby who tells Absalom what he saw, and so Absalom sends men that were hot on their tail. The woman very cleverly hides them in a well and then lies to their pursuers, enabling the spies to escape. This in no way is an endorsement of lying, but it is an endorsement on the importance of protecting human life. Rahab received special commendation for her protection of the spies. We read of it in Jas 2:25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? Further, were not the midwifes commended for lying to the Egyptians in their attempts to save the newborn? “Therefore God dealt well with the midwives,” (Ex 1:20) I think of others who have lied to protect human life such as those involved with the underground railroad in America, and those like the Ten Booms, hid Jews from the Nazis in Germany. The Ten Booms were prompted to action by Ps 122:6 which states, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. They loved, and for the sake of the Jewish lives, they lied, and as we read in 1Pe 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins." Little children, in all things let love be your guide.