Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The reading for today titled Least Likely was written by Kenneth Peterson.

Hollywood gives us larger-than-life spies who are dashing drivers of flashy Aston Martins and other luxury sports cars.

But Johnna Mendes, a former CIA chief, paints an opposite picture of the real thing.

An agent must be the little gray man, she says, someone n-descript, not flashy. You want them to be

forgettable. The best agents are those least likely to appear like agents. When two of Israel's spies

slipped into Jericho in Joshua, Chapter 2, it was Rahab who hid them from the king's soldiers.

She was seemingly the least likely person for God to employ as an espionage agent, for she

had three strikes against her. She was a Canaanite, a woman, and a prostitute.

Yet, Rahab had started to believe in the God of the Israelites.

Your God is God in heaven. She hid God spies under flax on the roof, assisting in their daring escape.

God rewarded her faith. Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute with her family.

Sometimes we might feel the least likely to be used by God.

Perhaps we have physical limitations.

Don't feel flashy enough to lead, or have a tarnished past.

But history is filled with nondescript believers

redeemed by God, people like Rahab, who were given a special mission for his kingdom.

Be assured, he has divine purposes for even the least likely of us.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Joshua

chapter 2, verses 1 through 4, and verses 9 through 14.

Then Joshua, son of nun, secretly sent two spies from Shidham.

Go look over the land, he said, especially Jericho.

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