Finding Love: Devotional Through Ruth

The Book of Ruth is a great love story of two lovers finding each other, but it's important to look at the bigger picture. In 25 to 28 different places in the bible the word redeemer pops up, it depends on how the verses get translated, but only less than 30 times. So that is why we don't hear this word that much in church. David, the King of the Jews wrote in Psalms 19:14 "You Lord, are my rock and my redeemer". David calls God his redeemer, why? Well, the old testament law was always pointing to something or someone (Jesus) and what this is pointing to is that fact that me and you are broke. We are broken to the core of our existence. We are completely separated from the riches of God. We have nothing to offer, no amount of our good deeds can save us. We need to be bought out of this famine life that we are put into. We need to be bought out of this famine sinful dark life. The prophets looked forward to a future salvation of the redeemer and we as Christians look back at the salvation of the redeemer. Christ Jesus paid the price in full on the cross. He bought the sinful famine dark land of despair that we are standing on and along with the land of sin, he bought me and you, with his blood on that cross. Jesus is the Church's Boaz.