The Woman Who Built Towns From Rubble
Now his daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah.
1 Chronicles 7:24 NKJV
Why do issues requiring change, repair, or improvement, when resources are available for solving these needs, often remain undone by the experts?
Maybe God is calling you to accomplish a task that at first glance, seems to be beyond your knowledge and abilities. But when God has placed a calling on your life, get ready to do the improbable, even the impossible. That’s God’s way of getting you to change the vision and goals you have to what He wants you to do.
In Old Testament times God had placed a unique, improbable calling on a woman named Sheerah. She was a visionary who saw what could be, then made it happen. In her time most every endeavor was male dominated. Even so, she accomplished the rebuilding of not one but three towns.
After Joshua’s army conquered Canaan, he assigned areas for each of the tribes of Israel to settle in. Among the descendants that entered the promised land were Beriah, and his family, which included his daughter Sheerah.
In entering the new land Sheerah took on the task of repairing Upper and Lower Beth Horan and Uzzen Sheerah. All three towns were on trade routes so making them livable meant families who settled there would feel secure and the communities would thrive and prosper. They would, in turn, continue the building, and add needful services to their own towns.
Her compassion for her people had been stirred, motivating her to do what at first seemed impossible. Afterall, she was a young woman in a male–dominated society.
Equally important to the rebuilding the residents of these villages could grow spiritually in their worship of Yahweh. No longer would human sacrifices be placed on the pagan alters in the Canaanite towns.
Sheerah chose a life of benevolence, compassion, and helping others whose needs were greater than her own.
A suggested prayer: Oh Lord, God. You knew me while I was in my mother’s womb. I pray that I will always seek to do Your will, not because I might be recognized, but so Your name will be lifted up and glorified. In Jesus’s name Amen.
devotionsby/patricia jordan 