I Have The Cure
"You're problem runs deep. You value what I can give you more than you value the privilege and delight of knowing Me and being radically changed by the experience."
Dr. Larry Crabb
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Who is your Kinsman Redeemer???
The book of Ruth is set in the time of Judges and we get a close up look at 3 lives during this period.
Naomi – A mother-in-law empty and in a season of great loss (husband and 2 sons died) returning for food alone at Passover to the House of Bread (Beit Lechem-Bethlehem). She knows that God has brought this too her and that His hand is against her. She fails to remember just as everyone in Judges failed to do, that if she turns and repents that she will be blessed as promised.
Ruth – Called to minister and care for a bitter, empty, hungry woman that will not repent nor believe in the goodness of God. Ruth decides to glean leftovers from the field edges for food for them both as less than a servant.
Boaz – The Kinsman Redeemer. If you don’t know that word… you need to know that word because Boaz plays out a divine roll for us in this story. This story tells not only of our eternal salvation but enlarges our idea of the Messiah and of God’s plan of redemption to it’s fully intended design.
There are two Hebrew words for redeem, redeemer, redemption in scripture. One is Padah (Pa-Daw) and the other is Go’ol (Go-all). To redeem with the word Padah is to redeem a living thing a person or an animal. To redeem as this word Kinsman Redeemer is the word Go’ol. This word is absolutely HUGE!!! It means to redeem through payment from bondage and exile and it also means to avenge. This means that the plan of redemption is not just to buy YOU back and give you eternal life… it is to buy back every spiritual thing concerning you.
You have a past, life experiences, spiritual giftings and a future meant to be walked out with God. Each part of this is meant to be bought back from where it has been taken by the enemy or that we have sold off on purpose. God is meant to work in our daily lives today and tomorrow not just someday in Heaven.
Jesus Christ is your Messiah, your Go’ol, and your Valentine… He is not just your Padah, He is your Go’ol and He can and will redeem as well your entire spiritual God-given inheritance ground… today!
A Few Questions to Ponder
- Have you allowed the love of God as your Go’ol to invade and buy back every part of your past and every experience that was destroyed or stolen by the enemy? Have you relied on and trusted him as your Go’ol to avenge all wrongs against you?
- Have you allowed God to come for every bit of ground you have given up searching to be filled? Have you sold yourself too cheaply in the past when you were meant to be a treasure of God? Have you ever made the decision to glean left-overs? Have you allowed God to redeem all those choices?
Jesus came and died for you, the ultimate Valentine gift. Have you accepted eternal salvation from Christ’s sacrifice on your behalf? Is He your Padah?
The Bock Family with their precious Ruth.
Kimberly Bock
*Reading for this week; 1Samuel!
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