Published by We can learn how to be a blessing by learning from Ruth.
Ruth Chapter 1 – Blessing is a Choice
Naomi gathered her 2 daughters-in-law and allowed them to return to their own homeland and to remarry. Orpah decided to return to her home but Ruth decided to stay with Naomi and returned with Naomi to Bethlehem.
To be blessing to others is a choice not a compulsion. Not even God will compel us to do anything. God allowed Adam and Eve to choose either to obey Him not to eat the fruit of the knowledge or to disobey Him and to eat the fruit of the knowledge. God honoured our freedom of choice. He even sacrificed Himself for His gift of freedom of choice to men.
Ruth Chapter 3 – Blessing Cost
Boaz was definitely older than Ruth because he had said that Ruth did not run aftr the younger men in the field in Chapter 3:10. Ruth was young and it would be a sacrifice for her to remarry an older man especially when she had experienced the sadness of the death of her husband.
If we want to be a blessing to others, we are not paying lip service. It has a cost for us to be wanting to bless others. In Luke 14, Jesus asked us to be wise in counting the cost else to run the risk to be ridiculed by others.
Before we make the choice to bless others, we need to consider the cost we need to pay for it.
Ruth Chapter 4 – Blessing Continues
Ever wonder Ruth concluded with a genealogy? All of us know that the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) began with a genealogy but why Ruth ended with the genealogy instead?
I suspect that it was with intention that the genealogy was put at the end. The intention is to assure those who choose to bless, who count the cost to bless, will receive continuous blessings throughout his or her life and his or her next generations.
If we choose to bless others and we count the cost to bless, we and our next generations will reap the benefits of blessings.
Some people ask why God bless people like us. Do you feel that you do not deserved His extravagrant blessings sometimes?
Besides God loves us without any condition, He bless us with a reason.
Considered why God blessed David and what did David realised that God still blessed him despite him sinning against him, committing murder and adultery. Consider it in 2 Samuel 5:12 and 1 Chronicles 4:12 when David realized that he was blessed by God’s extravagrantly because of the sake of God’s people.
We are blessed because God wants us to bless others also through His blessings.
