Ruth.4.13 - So Boaz married Ruth and took her home to live with him. When he slept with her, the LORD enabled her to become pregnant, and she gave birth to a son.
Ruth.4.14 - And the women of the town said to Naomi, "Praise the LORD who has given you a family redeemer today! May he be famous in Israel.
Ruth.4.15 - May this child restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you so much and who has been better to you than seven sons!"
God's principles are universal.
Being a son is not about the sex but more about destiny work and impact,
Its not about the gender but the weight of value and destiny impact
Being compared to seven sons is the summary of what it means to be virtuous and capable.
What It Means To Be Virtuous;
To possess good morals,
To be highly principled and honourable,
To be excellent in character,
To be praise worthy in conduct,
To be noble and exemplary in comportment,
To be honest, upright and faithful,
To be blameless, guiltless, faultless and above reproach.
Eight Keys That Attests To Ruth's Virtuousness As It Concerns Us Today;
A. Don't let your history stop your future possibilities.
Its possible for someone to come from a terrible background, but command a glorious future/destiny in God.
We can come from a bad foundation and still matter to our generation.
God will use us to correct negative events in our foundation, that's why we must not remain victims of wrong foundations.
Deut.23.3 - "No Ammonites or Moabites, or any of their descendants for ten generations, may be included in the assembly of the LORD.
Ruth came from a lineage that was never to appear in God's congregation forever but she changed that situationship for herself.
What stopped others will not stop us.
No matter how terrible the past was, there's a possibility of a glorious future for all of God's children, because Its been provided for in God's agenda being that, He knew that our ancestors will stumble at one time or the other.
Isa.65.8 - "But I will not destroy them all," says the LORD. "For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones (and someone will say, `Don't throw them all away--there are some good grapes there!'), so I will not destroy all Israel. For I still have true servants there.
Jer.4.27 - This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, but I will not destroy it completely.
The wickedness of the wicked is not permitted to make an utter end of our future and goals, Amen.
A glorious future has been provided for and preserved despite a terrible past.
Note;
a). A glorious future can be traced and discovered,
b). It can be discovered and recovered,
c). It can be believed and received,
d). It can be chosen and claimed.
What are the choices we've made in the stead of talking about what happened to us and what people did to us?
No matter the calamities, there are still glorious possibilities. Because prepared times and seasons are for prepared people.
What makes God reward people with children?....
The reward is for the people that take a decision that a negative past will not rob them of a glorious future.
Even to the men, the truth of God's Word is true for them, as for the women.
We must not be led about by those who access our lives only from the outside, because what's inside us matters a lot to God.
B. Pursue spirituality for the recovery of our glorious destiny,Spirituality will save us from calamities, Amen.
We can so serve God that He would carry everything and give us free of charge.
Gen.17.1 - When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.
Gen.17.2 - I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to make you into a mighty nation."
Gen.17.3 - At this, Abram fell face down in the dust. Then God said to him,
Gen.17.4 - "This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of not just one nation, but a multitude of nations!
Gen.17.5 - What's more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram; now you will be known as Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations.
Gen.17.6 - I will give you millions of descendants who will represent many nations. Kings will be among them!
Gen.17.15 - Then God added, "Regarding Sarai, your wife--her name will no longer be Sarai; from now on you will call her Sarah.
Abraham followed God and by so doing, stars, nations, kings came from him.
As believers, we need to follow God and not care what people think or say.
The wise men from the East followed a star that could not read and write to where Jesus was because what empowered the star was much more than reading and writing.
People don't come to church because they are perfect, but because they are transformed from glory to glory.
There's no level of life in life that we can't handle when we follow God.
- Believe God for a glorious future, despite a terrible past.
Ruth made a choice to trust and believe God for a glorious future despite the crisis of multiple sicknesses and death where she married into.
Despite childlessness and seeming disappointments, Ruth believed God.
There are things we must survive to see the Glory of God in our lives. Because where men end, is where God begins, and where humanity ends, is where divinity begins.
Job.23.10 - But he knows where I am going. And when he has tested me like gold in a fire, he will pronounce me innocent.
God knows the way we take.
Counsel
Destiny glory is not for people who are not ready to brace up and face challenges.
Stand still and see God's salvation.
When the battle leaves our hands, we must understand that it is the Lord's.
People might come from the same family, but they don't carry the same destiny.
We must follow those who show God to us and we must show God to others to enable them follow us.
We have to get to a stage in our lives where we're not afraid to say we don't know everything because of course, we know the God that knows everything.
We must believe God because in the midst of hopelessness, hoping is still an option,
In the midst of doubts, to believe God is still possible and is an action that attracts reward.