20/11/2025
God's Scandalous Grace
Ruth was a Moabite, a gentile widow estranged from the commonwealth of Israel and the covenants of promise
She leaves her nation, her people and her gods and followed Naomi another widow bereft of her husband and two sons,
Marries Boaz, the KINSMAN REDEEMER to her late husband and she later gives birth to a Son who became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David (An ex adulterer and murderer) from where Jesus our saviour was born
But what you didn't know is that Moab was a nation that came out of the incestuous relationship between Lot and his oldest daughter (Gen 19:30-38)
The book of Ruth paints such a graphic picture of God's gracious salvation that it leaves out any occasion of boasting in man.
God chooses the most unlikely and the most unqualified people to use in fulfilment of his purpose as a testimony to and demonstration of his gracious salvation towards man
Whenever God saves a man, whenever He uses a man He always leaves behind a signature that reads... Where is boasting then?
God's grace is so gracious that you can never be so good that you qualify, and so vast and gracious that you can never be too bad that you miss it or are disqualified
In salvation and in ministry we see that God doesn't call the qualified but qualifies the called
God has never had anyone qualified saved, or working for him yet and you will most certainly not be the first.
He does it so you serve him with fear and trembling. For even the man that works for God must know that For it is He that both worketh in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure
Maybe you are just another Noah, another Lot, another Moabite, another Ruth, another Naomi, another David maybe and you feel grossly unqualified for God to save or use.
Well, the goodnews is that the very thing that disqualifies you is what qualifies you for God's grace in both salvation and ministry
Just come as you are let God dress you with His grace!
Come!