FIRST, I MUST (and STRONGLY DESIRE TO) give GLORY to HOLY GOD "MOST HIGH"!!! (Psalm 47:2). As you probably read earlier in this blog...HOLY GOD "wrote down our every day before we were born". (Psalm 139:16).
By GOD'S GRACE I am again this year reading all the way through the BIBLE. So each day I read a passage from the Old Testament, then a passage in the New Testament. I have a guide/plan that lists the passages for each day's reading.
I have learned to NOT look ahead and see what I will be reading/studying in future days...Because reading ahead of time/anticipating...can cause me to miss something special that GOD wants for me to see for a particular day!!!
This morning (4-5-21) I had to take a short trip BEFORE I read today's assigned Scripture...and as I was sitting in my truck...Our most Gracious GOD gave to me a "MENTAL PICTURE" of the cross of JESUS CHRIST (Before He was put on the cross).
As you know, the Cross looks similar to the letter "+" ("tee"); and beside the Cross was the Name "RUTH"!!! So...THE Cross (+) PLUS "RUTH"= + ruth (TRUTH)!!!
In John (14:6) JESUS HIMSELF declares "I AM the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life". Remember now, the "Mental Picture" that I saw was the cross plus the name Ruth.
So, soon after I returned home... I got my BIBLE and opened it to read today's assigned passage in the BIBLE...and today's assigned portion is chapters 1-4 of the book of Ruth!!!!!!!
Ruth literally means "Friendship" or "Female Friend". Ruth's primary virtue was "tenacity of purpose": She was a woman who was steadfast. The result of this constancy led to her marriage to Boaz and the birth of Obed, who became the father of JESSE; Jesse's son was DAVID the King (Ruth 4:17).
JESUS was born of the "seed" of David/David was an ancestor of JESUS, the MESSIAH - THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD" (Luke 3:31-32)
So WHAT Lessons should we learn from this passage of GOD'S WORD?
Ruth was not a citizen of Israel...She was from the nation of Moab!!!
No matter WHAT our beginning was...No matter WHERE our beginning was--- ("FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD" (John 3:!6); when we accept JESUS CHRIST as our SAVIOR and LORD---then GOD will cause "HIS Kingdom to come, HIS will be done,,," IN and THROUGH our hearts!!!
HE is both infinitely creative, and intimately loving of each and every one of us.
HE has "Plans for EVERY one of us to "give you a future and a Hope..." (Jeremiah 29:11).
"HE, rhe Spirit of Truth, (The HOLY SPIRIT) will guide you into all truth..." (JESUS speaks this in (John 16:13).
We should frequently submit to GOD our Heavenly Father, asking HIM to work out HIS plan for us, and to give us wisdom
