From a Scarlett cord to a triple-braided cord 🪢

My church is fasting in this season and they have provided us with scriptures to read everyday. Today it was Ecclesiastes 4:12 which says;

“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

    https://bible.com/bible/1/ecc.4.12.KJV

But I kept hearing to read Joshua so a little later, I’m watching YouTube and I’m like eh, this is boring so I get up and go grab my Bible and I’m like Okay, Holy Spirit what is in Joshua that you want me to read. I read up until Joshua 2 where Rahab hid spies in her house.

    “And she said, “According to your words, so be it.”     Then she sent them away, and they departed.        

  And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.”

                            Joshua‬ ‭2‬:‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

     https://bible.com/bible/59/jos.2.21.ESV.

Then it correlated.

In order to be a three-stranded cord. You have to simply be a cord first. Rahab had faith before she had understanding. She had Hope before certainty. And Obedience before outcome. Rahab’s faith in trusting these two men allowed a covenant between the THREE of them.

There it is.

The three-stranded cord and this is why that promise wasn’t broken. Through this Rahab’s lineage was redeemed by Jesus himself.

This is my favorite part.

Cord in Hebrew is;

Ḥut = something small but functional

God uses the small, unknown and overlooked and makes them mighty. And with this communities, ministries are made. Through the obedience of one strand, woven into three.