3/24/2010 8:34 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Ruth prepared to meet Boaz, she washed
herself
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Ruth 3:1-3a
Bible Reading & Meditation: “1 ¶
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not
seek security for you, that it may be well with you? 2 "Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose
maids you were? Behold, he winnows barley at the threshing floor tonight. 3 "Wash yourself therefore.”
The book of
Ruth is “much more than the record of marriage of a rejected alien to a
respected Jew. It’s also the picture of
Christ’s relationship to those who trust Him and belong to Him.” (“Be Committed”) Warren Wiersbe begins this third chapter in
“Be Committed,” which is his commentary on the book of Ruth and also Ester
writing about how Ruth prepares herself to meet Boaz. He titles this third chapter “The Midnight
Meeting” and begins with these words, “In which a simple act of faith brings
the dawning of a new day.” In today’s SD
I will look at the first sub-point under “Ruth prepared to meet Boaz,” which is
“she washed herself.”
The water
used in the Middle East is a lot less than in other countries because there is
not that much there, and so when one reads in the Bible about a person taking
the time to wash themselves it also has a spiritual meaning to it as seen in
Genesis 35:1-3, “1 ¶ Then God said to
Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to
God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who
were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify
yourselves and change your garments; 3 and
let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who
answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have
gone.’” As seen in this passage the
changing of one’s clothes was also involved.
There is
another passage in the OT that speaks of a bride washing herself before she is
married, and that is found in Eze. 16:9-12, “9
"Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and
anointed you with oil. 10 "I also
clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your
feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 "I adorned you with ornaments, put
bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. 12 "I also put a ring in your nostril,
earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.” In this passage the Lord is speaking through
Ezekiel about how He had chosen Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Warren Wiersbe writes that the steps that
Ruth takes in this chapter are also steps that believers must take if they are
to have a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, and the first step involves
washing which is a picture of confessing one’s sin, and to get personal it
means confessing my sins. I have been in
and out of the practice of asking the Holy Spirit to search my heart for
unconfessed sin so that I may confess it to Him in order to have a fellowship
with the Lord Jesus Christ. There are
other things that I have to also do and that is to get rid of things that are
hindering my fellowship and relationship with the Lord and one of them is
getting rid of some of the cable channels that we currently have. When we go to Florida
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
1. “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me
and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in
the everlasting way.”
3/24/2010 9:30 AM
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