Many Redemptions... Many Redeemers
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There is coming a day of reckoning… where all broken things will be unbroken… where all sad things will be made untrue…
There is coming a day of reckoning… where all broken things will be unbroken… where all sad things will be made untrue…
describe some of what the world will be and look like in the wake of that day of reckoning...
In this sense of reckoning, yesterday was not that day. If today is that day, we don’t know it yet. And if today is not that day, tomorrow could be that …
THE DAY OF RECKONING… THE DAY OF REDEMPTION…
Our lives are littered with lesser, yet still sobering, days of reckoning… of redemption.
Our lives are littered with lesser, yet still sobering, days of reckoning… of redemption.
Les Miserables --
“Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store.
One more dawn… one more day… one day more!”
We all sing and pray for a redeemer… someone or something to reset all things broken to unbroken… all things sad to making them untrue...
We all sing and pray for a redeemer… someone or something to reset all things broken to unbroken… all things sad to making them untrue...
Such songs and prayers are the cries of every orphan… always over-estimating the power of their circumstance and underestimating the power of their redeemer.
Such songs and prayers are the cries of every orphan… always over-estimating the power of their circumstance and underestimating the power of their redeemer.
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. 20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” 21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.
Hurricane this week — the world bending… a country of such intellect, resource, and power… cowered in our closets hugging a blanket… as our redeemer — the creator of the winds, storms, and seas — asserts again the POWER of the heavens.
Only to have a redeemer make their way to the boat of your life and the first feeling you feel is… terror.
He is walking on the water — through wind, waves, and storm — and he redeems them.
Perhaps you are torn and worn that God has not unzipped your world and stepped into it. I tell you, when God does that, it is likely you will find yourself cowering in a closet under a blanket praying for mercy with fear… that the power of a redeemer is so potent — what if they choose to receive me? what if they don’t?
Perhaps you are torn and worn that God has not unzipped your world and stepped into it. I tell you, when God does that, it is likely you will find yourself cowering in a closet under a blanket praying for mercy with fear… that the power of a redeemer is so potent — what if they choose to receive me? what if they don’t?
Story of Ruth… Naomi… and Boaz...
Story of Ruth… Naomi… and Boaz...
11 But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”
“This is an irredeemable situation”
Orpah leaves… Ruth continues.
17 So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. 18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.
19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!”
Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
20 “The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.”
“One day more… another day, another destiny… this never ending road to Calvary....
“Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store...
One more dawn… one more day… one day more!”
As we continue in our series Adopted, we see here the stories of 3 people...
As we continue in our series Adopted, we see here the stories of 3 people...
Naomi — a widow who has returned to her home
Ruth — the Moabite immigrant
Boaz — the man who stayed rooted in his homeland
Much more than a romantic, sentimental love story...
Much more than a romantic, sentimental love story...
Ruth — redeemed from outsider to insider… now in the lineage of David and Jesus.
Naomi — redeemed as Boaz buys her husband’s land… restores her to the community, and gifted her with a grandson.
Boaz — the kinsmen redeemer… un-breaks what was broken… makes Naomi’s sad assessment untrue...
He is a REDEEMER.
When we think of Redeemers… we think of the Head Redeemer — the Lord Jesus...
When we think of Redeemers… we think of the Head Redeemer — the Lord Jesus...
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
And there are other, lesser redeemers than Jesus in our lives...
And there are other, lesser redeemers...
And there are other, lesser redeemers...
20 “The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.”
Boaz was not their only option...
O Hills’ emails of redemption by adoption…
Stories of Adoption are stories of Redemption…
Stories of Adoption are stories of Redemption…
Not only babies and teenagers who are orphans…
But:
Stories
Circumstances
Relationships
Injustices
Tragedies
Parents, kids, spouses
Who will adopt them? Who will un-orphan them?
Do you hear their song of hope against hope?
““One day more… another day, another destiny… this never ending road to Calvary....
“Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store...
One more dawn… one more day… one day more!”
And, do you recognize the redeemers in your life?
And, do you recognize the redeemers in your life?
I think of Marla who is contending for things before and about me that I have not yet come to understand or embrace...
I think of Dallas… whose books saved me from a theological system while fueling my love for Jesus.
And none more so than the Lord...
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:38-
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“One day more… another day, another destiny… this never ending road to Calvary....
“Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store...
One more dawn… one more day… one day more!”