Lessons from the unknown redeemer – Ruth 4: 2-12
3. He wouldn’t risk his own security.
v6 “I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate.”
This unknown redeemer existed on the ‘might be’ of life.
He was selfish and stubborn but he also wanted to stay safe.
He did not want to take any risks.
“One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do”.
Henry Ford
People who focus on their fears become paralysed and never grow beyond what there present stature.
The great tightrope artist, Karl Wallender died several years ago after a 75 foot fall from a tightrope. Throughout his life he showed no signs of fear. He once said ‘Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.’ But prior to his death certain things were taking place. His wife said after his death:
All Karl thought about for three straight months prior to walking across the tightrope was falling. It was the first time he’d ever thought about that. And it seemed to me that he put all of his energies into not falling, rather than walking the tightrope.
This is what can happen to us in our Christian walk. We can so put all our energies into not going under that we often fall right in and because we have lost sight of our goal we end up going under.
Missions Paul 