Weeks ago I was reading the Abraham-Lot story. Lot multiplied as much as Abraham. They had to go separate ways to avoid the fights among their shepherds and other kinfolk. Lot ended up going to the valley that housed Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities soon to be judged by God’s fire!
I must say, I was disheartened when Lot ran out of Sodom and Gomorrah, and fled to a different place! I thought he’d return to his uncle! But now he’s in a cave; without anything, save for his two daughters!
I longed for their reconciliation. I longed for it so much!
One of Lot’s daughters slept with him and gave birth to Moab: which led to the Moabite nation. God reminded me of the book of Ruth, which I had read earlier. Naomi had Ruth for a daughter-in-law. Naomi was Jewish (directly from Abraham’s tree). When she lost both her sons, Ruth pleaded that she returned with her incessantly.
Naomi gives in. Ruth returns with her and she’s instructed on what to do in order to position herself while on Boaz’s fields. Long story short, she gets married to this wealthy Jewish man. They produced Obed, who’s the grandfather of the legendary King David; the grandfather of the epic Jesus!
Do you see the reconciliation? The house of Abraham was joined again with Lot’s. Ruth represents the gentiles! But see them joined to God’s choice nation in covenant! Ah, my heart was full.
And God is saying He’s reconciling the things you long to be reconciled again! We’ve seen Him do this many times in His word. Moses (choice-nation) married Zipporah (an Ethiopian gentile)! We see God’s allegories of getting the sinner into covenant with Himself, which Jesus has come to fully complete in this age.
O His love, incomprehensible!
May He fix every broken string in your life — perfecting all that concerns you!
All of it! All … of it! Amen and amen.
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Jeremiah 33:7-8 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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