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LESSONS ON PROVIDENCE (7)
LORD’S DAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Psalm 40:4-17

Proverbs 11:27-30

 

“Blessed is that man that maketh

the LORD his trust…”

 

LESSONS ON PROVIDENCE (7)
 
The doctrine of providence also points to the responsibility and dutifulness of man under the divine sufficiency of God. Thus, as Thomas Ridgley promotes and encourages us to “seek happiness in him alone,” we do so consciously and lawfully, bound to the dictates of God’s Word and will. This is a lesson that the Book of Ruth reinforces through the life of Ruth and Boaz by showing that within the workings of providence, the trusting and faithful saint is God’s instrument in working out His will and plan. Concerning this, Morgan Campbell in his “Living Messages of the Books of the Bible” noticed three things concerning Boaz. They are as follows:
 
“First, his loyalty to God in the midst of difficulties. Secondly, he was a man who made application of his relation to God in his relation to his fellow men. He greeted the men who worked for him in terms which disclosed his relation to God. Yet he was neither a slovenly nor a careless man. He saw immediately the stranger in his fields. He took personal oversight of all his affairs, yet he lived a life so godly as to be able to greet his workmen in terms which revealed his relationship to God. Finally, he was a man of caution and of courage. The two things are never far apart. Caution is the very soul of courage. Courage is the true expression of caution. All these things reveal the fact that, trusting God, Boaz found Him sufficient to enable him to live a goodly life in circumstances of difficulty. Thus the secret of grace and beauty of Ruth, and the strength and manliness of Boaz lie in the fact that in differing circumstances, they both lived upon the same principle of simple yet sublime faith in God. Such souls as these are the instruments through which God is ever able to move towards the accomplishment of His purposes. The story of the ultimate values of the faith of Ruth and Boaz is told in the ending of this book. Boaz and Ruth, Obed, Jesse, David. So we see the very footsteps of Almighty God. Boaz the Hebrew, and Ruth the Moabitess in union, become the highway for God towards the ultimate realisation of His purposes.”
 
THOUGHT: (Proverbs 28:26-27.)

PRAYER: (Use Psalm 43:1-2.)

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