The King's Sovereignty Rules, But We Must Choose to Participate

"But Ruth replied, 'Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you.  Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.  Your people will be my people and your God my God." (Ruth 1:16)

If you want to get a glimpse of God's sovereignty at work , look at the Book of Ruth.  Ruth is in the lineage of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but consider the scenario.  There is, "famine in the land;" Elimelech takes his family to Moab, dies there along with his two sons, and only Naomi and the two daughters-in-law are left.  Then God blesses The Land, "by providing food for them;" so, Naomi leaves for home, Orpah and Ruth start to follow.  Naomi tells them it's no use to go with her; Ruth, however, won't have any of such talk and goes back with Ruth to Elimelech's and Naomi's homeland where Ruth meets Boaz, and the rest, as they say, is history--------------------- Salvation History.  

What we see in the Book of Ruth is God "setting the stage."  The variable is the obedience of people on that "stage."  God's way seems to be what we see in Isaiah, "Whom shall I send," and He will send somebody, of that there is no doubt.  The only variable is----------- who.   I have no doubt that if Ruth had chosen to stay in Moab, God would have simply found someone else to be in the Lineage of the Christ.  A frightening reality in the economy of God is revealed in the Bible------ Jesus Christ invites all humanity.  Who responds is another matter.

In Jesus' parable of the, "Great Supper," you will recall that when people began to make excuses as to why they could not participate, Jesus said, "Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant,'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind....Compel them to come in, that my house may be filed.'"  And, His House will be filled, you can be sure of that.  The question which still remains, however--------------------------------- who will be there?

Father, in Jesus' Name, Thank You for the invitation to Your, "Great Supper."  Amen.
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