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Bread in the House! (Ruth 1:22)
The barley harvest is just beginning in Bethlehem. It's late-April and the rainy season has come to a close. The passover season was the earliest of the major harvest seasons.
It is in this setting that the story of Ruth begins to unfold. Ruth is a beautiful and engaging prophetic pictrue of the entrance of the heathen world into the kingdom of God. Coming out of Moab, an idolatrous people full of sin, she herself is pure and tender.
In a land where sensuality formed one of the elements of idol worship, a woman lives whose character is unsurpassed by any woman of that land.
Ruth's confession of God springs from a desire to embrace the God of Israel. But it is the conformity of her life-to the will of God-through obedience that comes by faith that brings her into the fullness of what God has for her.
Ruth exemplifies the fact that participation in the kingdom of God is decided-not by blood and birth-but by her recognition of Lordship. This is the moment when she cast off her idolatry-with its folly of bowing down to gods of wood and stone and turned to the beauty and blessedness of the the true God.
Had she accompanied Orpah back to Moab and obscurity- she would have returned to the altars of Baal. Pig pens are the result of a decision to go somewhere God did not tell you to. But now with God in her heart-and a firm decision to follow Him-she is brought to a place of rich reward in the now and later when she becomes the ancestress of the Savior who came into the world to save.
We cannot drift into the blessing of God with a companion or even a church. There is no escape from a personal decision of surrendering to the sovereign will of God for your life. Blessings are the proof of obedience.
Ruth arrives in Bethlehem (House of Bread) just as harvest is beginning. It's been a ten year process from the time that she first heard of the God of Israel to the moment when she steps into her season of blessing. A long time, to say the least, but the most important thing is:
THE FAMINE IS OVER!
Is there famine in your life? Submit yourself wholly and completely to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of your existence and you will find that there is "Bread in the House."
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