FBC Daily Devotional – September 9, 2021

Well, good morning.

Good Thursday to you.

Hope your week is going well today.

We finished up in our Bible reading the Little book of Ruth in the Old

Testament the other day.

We read chapter 1 and then today chapters 2 through 4 if you're following that schedule.

I don't like to do it that way.

I personally prefer to read the book of Ruth as a whole.

It's a wonderful wonderful book and The the book opens if you

recall with With Naomi Losing all hope

the first chapter ends with her Expressing a sense of hopelessness now for

her As is true for all of us really.

Her hope was wrapped up in three things.

It was wrapped up in place purpose and posterity and And all

of us have that same sense of longing in our hearts and find

Find life to be most satisfying When we're settled in a place

When we are doing what we're doing with a sense of purpose.

We have it.

We have an idea we have an understanding that my life has purpose and

Posterity now for her that posterity was An expression of

security.

I guess that's a way to put it a security and security for her Was it was found in her posterity that

is her Family her children the name the family name would continue the family would go

on Through the lives of her sons or children.

But by the end of chapter 1 Ruth has lost it all.

She had left her place in Bethlehem to go to Moab and

So she lost her homeland.

She left her homeland Then she lost her Posterity as her

husband and her sons all died leaving her a widow and a

mother and a childless mother and so she lost her

posterity hence her sense of security and that also Sucked the

sense of purpose right out of her.

So chapter 1 ends very Soberly with Naomi

saying Don't call me Naomi Call me Mara.

Mara means bitter because of her hopelessness.

Aha, but the story continues and it goes on to show how

The God whom we serve through Jesus Christ is the God who provides

Exactly what we need he provides place posterity.

Purpose.

He provides us with hope he gives us hope his word gives us hope in Christ Jesus and

In the hope that we have as New Testament Christians.

What is that?

Hope it's centered on place posterity or security and purpose

and In this this little book Illustrates so vividly how the

faithful God the God who is faithful to his covenant Provides these things for his

children.

So by the end of the book end of Ruth the book of Ruth Naomi the one who

lost everything lost all hope has Had her place restored

through the Redeemer Boaz she has had a sense of security

restored through the posterity through the child born to Ruth and

Boaz and She has had her sense of purpose restored.

She becomes The caretaker the mother if you will that she fulfills that role

for this little baby the offspring of Boaz and

Ruth and who is that baby?

That baby becomes the father of Jesse who is the father

of David who is the king whose descendant

Will rule on the throne forever and ever his descendant being Jesus.

So even in this story of Ruth and Boaz God uses it to provide us

with our hope our hope of eternal place our hope of eternal security

our hope of eternal purpose to Live unto him forever and ever.

So I hope this this book has been a blessing to you If you didn't if you didn't read that let me just encourage you to go back at

some point Today, maybe before you retire tonight and and read that little book of Ruth

and just be blessed with how richly the Lord provides hope for

his people Our Father and our God we thank you for your faithfulness.

You provide a Redeemer and Through that Redeemer you give your people hope we

thank you for the hope that is ours in Christ Jesus the hope of eternal of an

eternal place of an eternal security and A purpose that will never

end to worship and to glorify you forever and ever This we pray and praise you

in Jesus name.

Amen.

All right.

Well, have a good rest of your Thursday.

I trust the Lord will bless you in it.

Good day.