Tues.’s Devo - Breakthrough

Read: Ruth 2:1-4:22, John 4:43-54, Ps. 105:16-36, Pr. 14:26-27 The story of Ruth is the Gentiles’ story. Ruth is a Gentile who chooses to come into a Jewish world and take their god. Boaz stands for Jesus, but there is a kinsman redeemer who is legally the one who Ruth belongs to if he chooses to take her and reproduce seed for her dead husband. When Boaz went to the city square to meet him, he was interested in the land, but not Ruth. This kinsman redeemer stands for the devil. He has legal rights to us, but all he is interested in is the land. Earth was his domain before God created beauty and nature. When God created man he told him to take dominion over the earth and subdue it. Just like he told Joshua to take the land in the promise land and drive out its inhabitants. That is what He told us to do. The devil is out to kill us, but he wants Earth. He wants the land. That is the big fight in the Holy Land. It’s over land, not people. People just get in the way and have to be moved or killed. Ruth chose Boaz just like we chose Jesus. Ruth and Boaz had a son named Obed which means “servant of God”. He was from the line of Perez which means “breaking forth”. We are to break through and take the land from the devil. It is given to us by God. In John, Jesus returned to the sight of his first miracle which was turning the water to wine. For his second miracle, he saves a boy from death. Isn’t that what Jesus came to do…. be the water that was turned to wine - our Saviour, and save us from death? Lord, thank you for your Word. It is a light to our path. May we break through the enemies’ strongholds and take our land for You.