A Great Love Story...
She was young when she met him and they got married.
She served his God, forsaking her's and cleaved to his family... they were one.
It wasn't long before her husband died and all that was left of his family was his ageing mother.
Her life was disrupted... she had embraced change but yet the settings for change were not maintained long enough. Faced with the decision whether to return and restart her life again, she chose to carry on with the changes she had learnt. She chose to do things God's way and demonstrate commitment to her husband's family. She stayed with her ageing mother in law and decided to even leave her country to her mother in law's regardless of the lure of a better life.
There she met with favour.... a man willing to marry her though she was a foreigner. He was a man of integrity and means. He persevered and married her even though the consequences for him was probable loss of his fortune to inheritance laws/customs.
Finally she had a husband - a honourable man. It was a long way from when her first husband died. She had embraced change, a lowly life and finally she had good fortune.
Her situation got even better - she soon became pregnant. She delivered and her baby lived with the mother in law becoming a nurse to it. The child became the mother in law's and a hope for the mother in law's future.
Ruth had given her all to her mother in law and God gave her a child also. She demonstrated great love and her actions were honourable. So honourable God has perpetuated her name through time - never to be forgotten and remembered in every generation.
Not sufficient to do this, He has also included her child in the lineage of his blessed son. She would never be forgotten and her great love has opened the door for many. The book of Ruth is testament to her love and sacrifice.... she's the undoubted star of it.
The message of Easter is a message of Ruth - great love pertains great sacrifice and in it is redemption and restoration.
Ruth 4: 14 - 15. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
She served his God, forsaking her's and cleaved to his family... they were one.
It wasn't long before her husband died and all that was left of his family was his ageing mother.
Her life was disrupted... she had embraced change but yet the settings for change were not maintained long enough. Faced with the decision whether to return and restart her life again, she chose to carry on with the changes she had learnt. She chose to do things God's way and demonstrate commitment to her husband's family. She stayed with her ageing mother in law and decided to even leave her country to her mother in law's regardless of the lure of a better life.
There she met with favour.... a man willing to marry her though she was a foreigner. He was a man of integrity and means. He persevered and married her even though the consequences for him was probable loss of his fortune to inheritance laws/customs.
Finally she had a husband - a honourable man. It was a long way from when her first husband died. She had embraced change, a lowly life and finally she had good fortune.
Her situation got even better - she soon became pregnant. She delivered and her baby lived with the mother in law becoming a nurse to it. The child became the mother in law's and a hope for the mother in law's future.
Ruth had given her all to her mother in law and God gave her a child also. She demonstrated great love and her actions were honourable. So honourable God has perpetuated her name through time - never to be forgotten and remembered in every generation.
Not sufficient to do this, He has also included her child in the lineage of his blessed son. She would never be forgotten and her great love has opened the door for many. The book of Ruth is testament to her love and sacrifice.... she's the undoubted star of it.
The message of Easter is a message of Ruth - great love pertains great sacrifice and in it is redemption and restoration.
Ruth 4: 14 - 15. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Labels: Love, Redemption, Sacrifice.
posted by Lekan Lijofi Ministries | 2:19 AM
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