RAHAB wanted definite assurance of security in view of the hour of judgment coming upon Jericho. Hence her insistent demand, “Give me a true token.” That token was for her the scarlet line which she was commanded to hang in the window. Such a scarlet line is the precious truth of redemption by the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. When in doubt as to her safety Rahab could look upon that scarlet line and be at peace. Even so, today, the troubled soul has but to rest in faith upon the testimony of the Word of God as to the abiding value of the blood of Christ to be free from every doubt and fear.
“On merit not my own I stand;
On doings which I have not done;
Merit beyond what I can claim,
Doings more perfect than my own.
Upon a life I have not lived,
Upon a death I did not die,
Another’s life, Another’s death,
I stake my whole eternity.
Not on the tears which I have shed,
Not on the sorrows I have known,
Another’s tears, Another’s griefs.
On them I rest, on them alone.
Jesus, O Son of God, I build
On what Thy cross has done for me;
There both my life and death I read,
My guilt, my pardon, there I see.”