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Prayer time for Broadview
Last Week: Suffering of Naomi - Decade of Death
1 of 2 places that God is mentioned in the book.
Interesting that the famine was not attributed to God but provision is.
I believe the author is setting the reader up for what is to come and seeing God’s provision in another way later in the story.
Naomi tells her DIL’s to go back home while she returns to Bethlehem.
Girls say no - vs. 10
Naomi tells them I cannot provide you husbands, go to where you can marry.
Orpah kisses Naomi and goes back
Ruth clings to Naomi
Orpah’s decision gets knocked often but it isn’t an unwise decision.
Ruth’s decision is the one that appears unwise which is why Naomi responds by saying
See, Orpah returned, go with her.
As Ruth clings to Naomi she says
Some commentators say this is Ruth’s conversion moment
Others say it is a moment of commitment like a citizen takes when becoming a citizen of a country.
It is hard to determine which position is accurate but there are three things we see in her statement that are very clear.
Her commitment is complete.
(go and lodge)
Her commitment is abandoning.
(old people and God)
Her commitment is life long.
(natural death or God kill her)
What Ruth does in this moment is that she makes a commitment of complete self-sacrifice.
It’s not conditional, partial, or temporary it is a commitment of her whole life.
The sacrifice we see here in Ruth is a shadow of the complete self sacrifice we see in Jesus.
In Christ we see the complete, abandoning, self-sacrifcing commitment to His people who he new and loved from before the foundation of the world.
Jesus loved us and was committed to us even though we were sinners.
This exposes the beauty of the Gospel.
Jesus died for sinners.
When we see this type of commitment we should be humbled at this thought.
Jesus knew our sins and still went through with it.
In light of this type of self sacrificing commitment we must ask ourselves.
Do I cling to Christ with this type of commitment?
Does my life look like,
When we see the commitment of Ruth and the example and command of Jesus we have to examine our lives.
We have to ask,
Has my commitment to Jesus become situational?
Has my commitment to Jesus become a side-gig?
Has my commitment to Jesus become seasonal?
In the 1880’s a Welsh missionary who had endured severe persecution finally saw his first converts in a particularly brutal village in the Indian province of Assam.
A husband and wife, with their two children, professed faith in Christ and were baptized.
Their village leaders decided to make an example out of the husband.
Arresting the family, they demanded that the father renounce Christ, or see his wife and children murdered.
When he refused, his two children were executed by archers.
Given another chance to recant, the man again refused, and his wife was similarly stuck down.
Still refusing to recant, the man followed his family into glory.
Witnesses later told the story to the Welsh missionary.
The reports said that when asked to recant or see his children murdered, the man said: “I have decided to follow Jesus, and there is no turning back.”
After seeing his children killed, he reportedly said, “The world can be behind me, but the cross is still before me.”
And after seeing his wife pierced by the arrows, he said, “Though no one is here to go with me, still I will follow Jesus.”
I have decided to follow Jesus was never about an altar call or a decision for Jesus.
It was about commitment to Jesus no matter what.
This is the type of commitment we see in Ruth, in Jesus, and is what we should strive for.
When our commitment looks like this no matter what comes we will cling to Jesus.
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