Ruth Listens to What Boaz Has to Say (Ruth 3:10-14)

4/3/2010 9:15 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                                        Focus: Ruth Listens to Boaz

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Ruth 3:10-14

 

            Message of the verses:  “10  Then he said, "May you be blessed of the LORD, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich. 11  "Now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence. 12  "Now it is true I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I. 13  "Remain this night, and when morning comes, if he will redeem you, good; let him redeem you. But if he does not wish to redeem you, then I will redeem you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until morning."

    14 ¶  So she lay at his feet until morning and rose before one could recognize another; and he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.’”

            As mentioned in an earlier SD that was done on this 3^rd chapter of Ruth that Dr. Wiersbe points out that the things that are in this 3^rd chapter of Ruth speak of how believers can draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ in their walk with Him and so there are two sub-points in the point that is made today that bring this out.

            Christ accepts us is the first sub-point that I want to write about this morning.  It was because of Boaz’s great love for Ruth that he accepted her, and so it is because of the Lord Jesus Christ’s great love for His children that He accepts us and therefore we as believers should not be afraid to draw close to Him.  “7. Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8a. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you,” (James 4:7-8a).

            Christ assures us just as Boaz assured Ruth is the next sub-point.  There are a couple of points that I wish to make from this sub-point, and the first one is that “our assurance is not in our feelings or our circumstances but in His Word.”  This is a very true statement because our circumstances and our feelings change but the Word of God never changes and never will and that is what believer’s are to cling to.

            The second point that I wish to make is that Boaz did not hold back the truth that there was a closer kinsmen redeemer for Ruth.  He was more interested in allowing Ruth to be redeemed that who it was that was going to do it.  In Ezekiel 18:4 he writes, “The soul who sins will die.”  This would seem to be a problem for the Lord when it came to redeeming those that He had chosen from eternity past, yet Paul writes in Romans 8:32, “32  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”

            Dr. Wiersbe also mentions a number of “fear not” statements that the Lord made to His people throughout both the old and the new testaments and this is what is implied by Boaz.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  The “fear not” statements are good to remember, especially whenever I am afraid because of my circumstances or bad and fearful feelings that I have from time to time.  God’s Word has great and wonderful promises that will never change and these are what I must cling to when things are not going will in my life. 

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”

 

4/3/2010 10:05 AM