“I am Ruth, your slave,” she replied. “Spread your cloak over me, for you are a family redeemer.” Ruth 3:8
Spread your cloak over me means extend your protection, heritage, blessing, and love over me. Let me take refuge in your shelter. Make me part of your family and heritage. Take the responsibility as a family redeemer. Boaz is compared to Jesus Christ. Ruth can be compared with you. We are asking Jesus to extend to us his love,...
Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” He set up one in Bethel, and put the other in Dan. 1 Kings 12:28,29 First, Jeroboam built two idols and placed them in Bethel and Dan. Bethel means House of God and Dan means He judged. In the House of God, Jeroboam erected an idol—the golden calf. Jeroboam setup up a...
These days people have lost the ability of sustaining God’s presence for a longer period of time till it completes its work. God sends His presence to carry out a planned work. This work may consist of giving comfort to a person in need, reviving the Spirit, healing someone, etc. Sometimes because of our negligence God’s presence leaves before it has finished the necessary work. We receive a visitation, word, or touch from Jesus when in...
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him...
Philistines might have gouged out Samson's eyes, but they were unable to take away the knowledge he had acquired about God. Samson understood deep down in his heart that God's mercy overrules and prevails over human failures. Even if we may stumble 1,000 times as a result of our mistakes, yet God always shows mercy. Although it does not give us permission to sin, this understanding helps us get to know God better. The enemy may have stolen...
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?” Job 38:1 Darkens counsel means to confuse an issue by introducing irrelevant or ill-founded considerations about God. Job began to speak in great detail about his current circumstances and about God. These words had no knowledge of God and brought a misunderstanding or wrong understanding about God. It revealed a lack of...
But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children”. Luke 23:28 In this verse, Jesus was predicting that there will come a time of weeping when Jerusalem will be destroyed. In the year 70 AD, this Jerusalem was destroyed. Jesus did not cause a stir when he spoke about the future like prophets of this generation did. He spoke simply in between words describing...
God in His mercy gave a young person a vision of Living Water. The young person was escorted to the bank of a glittering river in this vision. When viewed from various angles, the river appeared to be radiating many colours. Alongside the young individual, a visitor was present. The visitor told the young man to take some water in the hand and start drinking this water. The young person took some water in his hand. The water was sparkling...
A question asked long ago, and often repeated is as to why we have four Gospels. The answer to that enquiry was given by Origen when he said, There are not four Gospels, but a four-fold Gospel. This means that to an understanding of the Person and mission of our Lord, each evangelist, inspired of the Holy Spirit, has given one phase of revelation. This being so we cannot compare them in the sense of discriminating between their values. Each has...
When Jesus is among us and in us, we witness a lot of angelic activity. The shepherds were informed of Jesus' birth by angels. Angels came and ministered to Jesus in the wilderness (Matthew 4:11). In Isaiah's vision, angels are gathered around God's throne. In Samson’s birth, an angel declared the birth of Samson, a Nazarite. Where Jesus is, there is always angelic activity. The task of angels is to proclaim, defend, support, and minister to...