A week before the season ended we had a small group up. Some of the kids were from the Baptist Children’s Village and the rest were just a couple of people that decided to come up and make our weekend complete. We ended up with a couple of deer down, but more importantly we had a couple of people that decided to follow Jesus that weekend.
Some of the kids that came that weekend had never been hunting before. And that’s what I want to talk about. A lot of people in south Mississippi grew up hunting, fishing, and spending time outdoors. But there are a lot out there that haven’t lived that life. Take me for instance, I didn’t go hunting until I was well into my thirties. I just wasn’t raised with the same background that my kids have came up in. You know, we are all different, and that’s just the way God made us. He has a purpose and a plan for each and everyone of our lives. He has a reason that he places each of us into the circumstances and situations that we are in.
I am writing this today to remind you that He has you in the circumstances He has for His plan, not yours. I was reading in the book of Ruth this morning, and it was telling the story of Naomi. You see Naomi had left her home, lost her husband and both of her sons, and then returned home with only a daughter-in-law. But Ruth loved Naomi, and would not leave her side. Naomi became bitter, she felt like God had left her. But through the love of Ruth, and more importantly God, Naomi got her joy back. In Chapter 4 of Ruth at the very end we find these verses…
Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a close relative; and may his name be famous in Israel! And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”
This verse shows that Naomi wasn’t alone anymore, God had given her an heir through Ruth. God never left her, but He brought her through everything to fulfill His plan of salvation. Know today that everything you are going through is part of His plan. Just trust in Him.
Love in Christ,
Briar Ridge
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