Submission and faith....Ruth

Can you believe that I taught a study on the book of Ruth that took 8 Wednesday nights? I just finished the series last night and it has really been interesting to me. I have enjoyed teaching from this incredible story. This is a story of a foreigner (Moabitess) who lost all she had in her world but found a brand new future in the Promiseland. She came broken to the land of her husband but through a kinsman-redeemer, her life was transformed.

Her life parallels our lives in every way! We came as sinners from a foreign land. We were hungry and really thought we needed just enough to get us through the next day. Little did we know that God was working behind the scenes to bring us to a whole new life! He not only provided us with what we needed to get through the next day- He redeemed our life. He brought us into His household. What the Law and all the animal sacrifices could not do, He did. He robed himself in flesh and came into the Field of Grace HIMSELF to provide redemption.

Just as Ruth was elevated in life by what Boaz did, we find ourselves living better lives than we dreamed possible. We are no longer sinners in a foreign land. We are of the household of faith and grafted into His family. He has plans for us. We, too, can be used in ways that we cannot even think possible today.

Ruth had no idea that she was being grafted into the lineage of the Savior. She just followed Boaz in submission and faith to find a better life. Look what her willingness to change brought to her life!

Are we following the Lord with that kind of submission and faith? He has so much for us. I am coming to understand that if I will just believe through simple faith, He will do the work. I often shake my head in wonder at what He brings my way. Like I have heard all my life, "If you see a turtle on a fence post, you can know that he didn't get there by himself!" I have been elevated. My life is better because of HIM. Don't you feel the same?

We can learn a lot from Ruth.