... To our spouse.
... To our God. The value of such life can never be known until we pass within the veil.
Remember how the Book of Ruth closes (Ruth 4:22): “Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.”
Boaz and Ruth had passed into the light when David came, the king – for whom the nation was waiting, yet the sequence did not end with David. A little later, a prophet from some height of vision broke into a great song:
“But you, Bethlehem near Ephrat, so small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth one to Me the future ruler of Israel…” (Micah 5:2)
Far down the centuries there shone a light at midnight, and songs were heard and in the direct line of the man of Judah, and of privilege, and the woman of Moab and of limitation, to Bethlehem came the king. They did not witness this beautiful end result.
They did not live to reap the ultimate harvest of their fidelity, but God found a foothold in the man and woman of faith, and in their united lives.
This is the principle of which I think we need to be reminded, in order to encourage our hearts in the midst of work.
Remember the work you do today you cannot see the end result (yet this is what we look for) if it is work wrought by faith in God.
Our cry should be for all-out abandonment to God, in order that by our loyalty He may win the victories of His royalty.
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