In all the laws God gave to Moses for the people, He made provisions
of benevolence toward others. In the custom of gleaning, some remnants
are left over for the alien, fatherless, and the widow, but the
remnants were not picked and handed to them, they had to go get them
for themselves.
It was through this custom that Boaz was introduced to Ruth…and we know where that led. Ruth 4:13
So
Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the
LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
Ruth 4:17b
And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. (ancestor of Jesus)
Again
God warns the Israelites about the nations teaching them to follow
their detestable ways, the worst of which is the worship of other
"gods", the first of the Ten Commandments.
Deut 23:14
For
the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to
deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not
see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
Can
we even begin to wrap our minds around this one? The Lord moves
about in our "camp" to protect us and deliver our enemies to us,
spiritually speaking. But in order for the Lord to do this for us,
our "camp" must be holy, containing nothing indecent. When we do
anything indecent, He will turn away. Makes a person want to evaluate
everything; what we say, what we do, who we hang out with, what we
watch on TV, what kinds of movies we watch, what kind of books we
read, etc.... Would anything we see, say, or do be considered indecent
in the Lord's eyes?
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