Some people think their past puts them permanently outside God’s family. Others assume their good background puts them safely inside. Both look at pedigree. Rahab had none worth mentioning. She lived in Jericho, a city under judgment, and Scripture calls her a prostitute without softening it. Yet she had heard what the Lord did at the Red Sea, and she concluded that He is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath.
So she sided with Him. She hid the spies, asked for mercy for her family, and tied a scarlet cord in her window as the sign she had been promised. When the walls fell, that house was spared. Hebrews lists her among the heroes of faith, not because she was respectable but because she trusted the God of Israel when it cost her. Matthew goes further and names her in the family line of Jesus. The outsider was brought all the way in. Many have seen the red cord as a picture of the blood that marked the doors at Passover, and ultimately of Christ’s blood that shelters everyone who takes refuge in Him. Your record does not decide your welcome. Faith in Jesus does. Whatever your story, you can come under that same mercy today.
Associated Scripture
Hebrews 11:31 (ESV): "By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies."
Matthew 1:5 (ESV): "and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,"
Suno Style Prompt:
Modern Folk-Rock, Soulful CCM, Vocal Forward, Organic Percussion, Deep Snare, Stomp and Clap, Distorted Acoustic Guitar, Intimate Verse, Anthemic Chorus, No Synths
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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I lived my life on the edge of the stone
A house on the wall where the cold wind blown
I heard the stories of the desert fire
Of a God who rose while the kings expired
The city is trembling, the gates are tight
But I’m keeping a candle burning tonight
I hid the men beneath the drying flax
With the weight of the world upon my back
[Verse 2]
They call me a name I’d rather forget
A life lived in shadows and paying a debt
I saw the kings in their towers of gold
But I saw a Power they couldn't hold
So I hid the strangers, I gave 'em my word
A secret between us that nobody heard
"Save my mother and my father too"
When the trumpet sounds, I’m sticking with you
[Chorus]
Tie that cord! Let the crimson fall.
Mercy’s waiting for the low and small
Tie that cord! Let it hang out wide.
I’m choosing a hope on the other side
Yeah, I’m choosing a hope on the other side
[Verse 3]
Now the city is ash and the dust has cleared
The God of the strangers is the God I feared
He didn’t leave me in the rubble and clay
He carved out a path and He led the way
An unlikely branch on a holy vine
The blood of an outcast in the Savior's line
[Bridge]
The horns are blowing, the ground is shaking
The idols are falling, the city is breaking
The scarlet is hanging, the mercy’s defying!
The wall is a-tumbling, the dust is a cloud
But my house is standing, and my head is bowed!
[Chorus]
Tie that cord! Let the crimson fall.
Mercy’s waiting for the low and small
Tie that cord! Let it hang out wide.
I’m choosing a hope on the other side
Yeah, I’m choosing a hope on the other side
[Outro]
From the edge of the wall to the line of the King
Listen to the song that the broken sing
Boaz’s mother, a branch on the tree
The faith of an outcast set the world free.
