Who Will Be the Champ?

“I am a close relative, but there is another closer than I.” Ruth 3:12

Perhaps you have said to someone, “Do you want the good news first, or the bad?” What must Ruth have felt when Boaz finished his promise with the codicil that there might be someone else with a better claim to Ruth? All the time she had spent following him. the blessings he had bestowed upon her, the joy she had felt in getting to know him, and the hope for a future with him as her provider, and now the words some out, “There is another closer than I”.

There is another claimant for our soul that is Jesus Christ. That claimant is our great adversary, the devil. Satan, our accuser lays his claim as well. We are born in sin and that condemns us to separation from God. By birth we are his and without an intercessor, we remain his for eternity. But Boaz continued, “I will see to this matter myself.” He would confront the opponent for her claims. Christ has done that for us. Praise God.

Dear Father, Thank You for sending Jesus as our champion. Amen.

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