3/19/2010 9:40 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: We must live by the grace of God Part 2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ruth 2:9-16
Message of the verses: “9
"Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them.
Indeed, I have commanded the servants not to touch you. When you are thirsty,
go to the water jars and drink from what the servants draw." 10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the
ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight that you
should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?" 11 Boaz replied to her, "All that you have
done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully
reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of
your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know. 12 "May the LORD reward your work, and your
wages be full from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come
to seek refuge." 13 Then she said,
"I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and
indeed have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your
maidservants." 14 At mealtime Boaz
said to her, "Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece
of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her
roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left. 15 When she rose to glean, Boaz commanded his
servants, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult
her. 16 "Also you shall purposely
pull out for her some grain from the bundles and leave it that she may glean,
and do not rebuke her.’”
In
yesterday’s SD I covered two of the five sub-points that are under this second
main point of chapter two: “The Greatest
Of These.” Today I wish to look at the
third sub-point “Boaz promised to protect Ruth and provide for her needs.”
This
section covers verse 9 and 14-16. All of
the five sub-points in this second point picture how the Lord Jesus Christ
cares for His children and it is a beautiful picture indeed. Boaz called Ruth “my daughter” not only
because she was younger but because it was a term of endearment, because she
was a member of his family in a kind of round about way. Boaz made sure that Ruth got the best of the
gleanings, the first of them. Is she
become hungry or thirsty he would take care of that and he did so as seen in
the text.
Warren
Wiersbe points out the picture of God grace to His children when he writes the
following: “Jesus Christ came to this
earth as a servant (Phil. 2:1-11) that He might save us and make us a part of
His family. He has shared with us the
riches of His mercy and love (Eph. 2:4), the riches of his grace (v-7), the
riches of His wisdom and knowledge (Rom. 11:33), His riches in glory (Phil. 4:19),
and yes His ‘unsearchable riches’ (Eph. 3:8 NIV). We, undeserving ‘foreigners,’ are members of
the family of God and have all His inheritance at our disposal.”
I
would like to cut a paste these verses from the above paragraph as a conclusion
to this SD, with the exception of the first one because of the length of it.
1. Phil. 2:1-11
2. Eph. 2:4 “But God, being rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us.”
3. Eph. 2:7 “so that in the ages to come He
might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus.”
4. Rom.
5. Phil. 4:19 “And my God will supply all your
needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
6.
Eph. 3:8 (NIV) “Although I am less than the least of all God’s people, this
grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I had to have a talk with my Lord this
morning over the way that I have been handling the health care issue in this
country that our government is, with good reason, fighting about. This issue could affect the entire world
because of the cost of it and how dependent the world is at this time on the US
dollar. I angers me with what I believe
a justifiable anger, and yet I had to confess to my Lord how I am handling this
issue for He is in charge of it and will do what He wants to do in all of
this. There is a verse in Daniel that I
can’t find at this moment that speaks of God being in charge of the rulers so
that they will do as what will fit into His plans, and this is what I am to
rely on, for God is indeed in charge of all of this and what happens will bring
glory to the Lord some how some way.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Trust the Lord for He has His plan and He will bring it about.
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