I’ve been thinking about this thread that runs through Scripture, and it’s stopping me in my own tracks. Back in Genesis 9, Noah curses Canaan, Ham’s son, declaring that his descendants will live under the weight of servitude. From that moment forward, the land of Canaan carried the weight of that curse. And the results showed quickly, Canaan’s descendants became a people marked by corruption, rebellion, and practices that grieved the heart of God. Their land became known as a place of idolatry and wickedness. And yet in Genesis 12, God does something that looks upside-down, He sends Abram to that very land. The land of the cursed becomes the land of promise. Over and over again, as Israel steps into Canaan, we see God pulling people out of the shadow of that curse, like Rahab, a Canaanite woman in Jericho, who had faith to believe in the God of Israel and ended up folded right into His family, even into the very lineage of Jesus. The place and the people once branded as cursed become part of God’s story of redemption. And then we see it again in Jesus’ ministry. There was a woman who had been bleeding for