Rahab

Rahab was a prostitute in the Bible, most known for her appearance in Joshua 2 where she hid two spies on top of her Inn who were sent out by Joshua to look over the town of Jericho which the Israelites were about to attack. In return for hiding the spies her and her house were untouched during the Battle of Jericho.

God protected her, but why?

It's almost as though God wanted to teach us that he can use anyone to do his work. She wasn't an Israelite, she didn't worship God or even try to keep his laws, in fact she was a pretty bad sinner in the eyes of most people.  It just shows that you start out fresh each time you trust in his word and act on his promises.

One of the things I oh so love about Jesus is that he picked some of the most common, sin stained, and sorrow blackened people to do do his extraordinary tasks.

Here's the amazing part though.

It turns out that later on Rahab married a man named Salmon, whose son was Boaz, the husband of Ruth, whose son was Obed, who was the son of Jesse, who was the son of David, who was the King of Israel, which also follows to Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus!

Who would have ever guessed that God would chose Rahab, a prostitute, to be Jesus' grandmother many times removed?!