My Prayer-Poem for the 21st day of Lent, Tuesday 9 March 2021

My Prayer-Poem for the 21st day of Lent, Tuesday 9 March 2021


Rahab the Canaanite


Rahab lived in Jericho
challenging the status quo,
prostitution being her only claim to fame.
and to add one insult more
to this Canaanitic whore
is the crude and humorous meaning of her name.


Meaning “wider than a road”
Rahab’s name may have forebode
what’s recorded clearly in the Holy Books;
for she welcomed Joshua’s spies
which probably seemed unwise,
although neighbours often saw those lustful looks.


But the meaning of her name
was much more than jest and shame,
for she bravely played her part in Your campaign.
And the walls of evil fell
and a Saviour she’s foretell
and a wide embrace for humankind again.


©️Mark Andrew Smith
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