The Journey

We are in a middle of a series in the where we are looking at the various and sundry characters in the Old Testament focusing specifically on how they point us to the Messiah, Jesus Christ. What I have found refreshing and more than interesting is that God loves to use bad girls to bring about redemption. In fact, He seems to prefer it. This God-prefered reality of "using of the imperfect" perfectly fits the Grace theme that dominates the Bible, "God works in us and through us despite us."

Bad girls, take heart! God wants to use you despite your badness! Take comfort in the words of Liz Curtis Higgs, a self-proclaimed bad girl who writes about Biblical bad girls for the encouragement of modern-day bad girls:

"For ten years I studied bunches of biblical role models and finally realized what we had in common: Zip.
Sarah was so faithful. Esther was so courageous. Mary was so innocent. I was so none-of-the-above. Girls, it was downright discouraging.
Then I found Jezebel and something inside me clicked. I identified with her pushy personality, I understood her need for control, I empathized with her angry outbursts, and I began to wonder...
Could those Bad Girls from the past teach us how to be Good Girls in the present? I'm here to tell you-yes!

Eve had a hunger that cost her a garden;
Potiphar's wife had an appetite, too;
Lot lost his mate when her past swirled around her;
Delilah went bad when she snipped a new 'do.

Sapphira fell flat when it came down to money;
Jezebel ordered her husband around;
Michal missed the message in King David's worship;
To the bone, in a moment, their badness was found.

Yet...

A woman of Samaria found a thirst-quencher;
A sinner, a woman, anointed Christ's feet;
Rahab, the harlot, became a believer;
Her sin, like the walls, crumbled down in defeat.

Bad for a season, but no, not forever;
Not these three role models, saved from despair;
Made new by God, their changed lives teach the lesson:
If we but ask him, grace waits for us there."

http://www.lizcurtishiggs.com/waterbrook/BadGirls/badgirls.htm