Monday, November 28, 2005
Leviticus 19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
ENGINEERED BY THE LORD
When you look at a skyscraper, a massive bridge, or some other amazing feat of engineering and design, it is not difficult to understand that a good deal of planning must have been involved before stones and steel were moved into their final positions.
Likewise, when we consider the salvation of our souls culminating in the empty tomb on Easter Sunday, we know that such an incredible thing was engineered long in advance. Before the Lord Jesus could keep God's holy law in our place He had to become one of us. Before He could suffer and die carrying the sins of the world, He had to be born a human being of virgin mother.
So many years ago God was putting all the pieces into place. This was His "Advent season" so to speak. Surely the divine engineer knew when He first gave the Levitical harvest law to Moses and the Israelites that one day a woman named Ruth would make use of it. Boaz, a God-fearing farmer, had followed the word of the LORD and left the edges of his field uncut and the gleanings of his harvest for the poor and the foreigner. Ruth was both. As she gathered grain to take home to her mother-in-law, Boaz noticed her. He loved her and he married her.
Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed; who had a son named Jesse; who had a son named David -- and David became king. Then hundreds of years later it was Joseph, of the house and lineage of David, who went to Bethlehem to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife being great with Child.
