From today for the next few weeks I will

From today for the next few weeks I will be blogging some thoughts from the book of Ruth. I hope they bless you. If you get chance try reading the book in one sitting.

Matthew 1
A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ … Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife… Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.

Ruth was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite, a son of Naomi, whose family had moved to Moab to escape a famine in Bethlehem.
Moab is mentioned often in the Old Testament as a wicked people whom God would judge for their sins against Israel.
The first time Ruth is mentioned is as a woman of Moab, an outsider, a stranger to the kingdom of God.
The last time we read of Ruth in the Bible is in Matthew 1:5, “…Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David.” She has been honoured by being placed in the genealogy of Christ.
Ruth moved from obscurity to significance.
God wants you to know that you can become all that you can become.
You are unique in the sight of God, in the eyes of many you may be just another number, a statistic, but from God’s point of view there is no one like you, you have a unique mission from God. Don’t try and become somebody you were never meant to be. Don’t emulate someone else, don’t copy. Don’t plagiarise yourself. Don’t dream other people’s dreams or attempt other people’s call.
Be your self. Reach for the destiny that is yours.
Each one of us can move from obscurity into significance.