Mother Theresa said she was just a pencil in the hand of God writing a love letter to the world. Her life showed a grain of truth in that statement. It should be no surprise that God uses various people for the same reason.
Even though the Bible has plagues, droughts, disasters, extreme violence, there is a thread of love weaved throughout from Genesis to Revelation and beyond. If we pull off the side of the road we can rest stop at the Book of Ruth. Written a 1,000 years before Jesus was born, the Book of Ruth shows partial lineage of David, and shows that Gentile blood was in the line of Christ. The book gives us a glimpse into the personal lives of ordinary people during a turbulent period in Israel’s history.
In a longer-than-life role of the kinsman-redeemer, Boaz exhibits a beautiful type of Christ. He was a blood relative, he had the price to purchase the forfeited inheritance, and he was more than willing to redeem. This entire book is a loving example of the sovereignty of God caring for His people.
“But when the fulness of the time was come,God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
Galatians 4:4-5
Bottom line:
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:19
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