"Greater Riches!"

 "Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." (Hebrews 11:26 KJV)

  "But Ruth replied, "Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death separate us!" (Ruth 1:16-18 NLT)

 The thing that made me turn to this Scripture in Ruth was her sincere desire to leave the land she was born in, and go with Naomi to a place she didn't even know; yet she wanted to know and worship the God that Naomi knew; as well as provide comfort to her mother-in-law, whom she truly loved. For the sake of saying what you should already know, Ruth was a Moabite, who was from the land of Moab. 

 I know that is remarkably easy to understand; yet this place called Moab was named after a particular person, who came from a very particular man, named Lot, the nephew of Abraham. As the story goes, Lot took his wife and two daughters out from Sodom, because God was going to destroy it and he was told to flee. But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt; so, his two daughters decided to get him drunk and have sex with him, so they could continue the family name. One of the daughters had a son, that she named Moab; who became the ancestor to the nation known as the Moabites.    

 This might not seem as though it has any direct connection, something that really matters; but of the line of those who are part of the bloodline of Christ, Ruth is one of them. There were actually four women in that line, three were personally involved in some sort of sexual issue; yet Ruth was just a descendant of one, but she was still part of the story.  

 Anywho, there is more to that then we have time to talk about; but the one who gave birth to Jesus was a virgin, meaning that she became pregnant without any sexual encounter. Unlike one of the cults try to say, God didn't come knocking at her door in order to make her pregnant; the Holy Spirit put the seed inside of her; meaning that she still was going to give birth as a virgin! 

 Whatever you think about that, it is the way that God planned it: that a virgin would give birth to His Son! This is what I believe, because this is what the Bible truly says! If you have a Bible that says, "young maiden," then they are trying to twist the meaning, as if she really wasn't a virgin when she gave birth. 

 As for Moses and his determination to walk away from the pleasures of Egypt, he saw something far more important and promising in the God of his people; which were actually his people; making their God his God, much as Ruth felt in her heart...

""If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it."" (Matthew 10:39 NLT)