As we finish the book of Ruth what this list of names all about? Shouldn’t they be riding of into the sunset and living happily ever after? Instead we just get a list of names, what that about? Well they do live happily every after, actually because of what Boaz and Ruth did we all live happily ever after. That final name is all-important to you. It’s important to your mates at college, it’s important to your friends at school; it’s only massively important to the world. There are many predications from people in the know, in the Old Testament that say Jesus would come from the family of David. So David the last name mentioned in the book of Ruth was the great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather of Jesus, who came to save the world. OK I am missing a quite a few greats but you get the idea. OK so the fact that Jesus came form the family of David is yet more proof that he is the true Messiah, but what difference does that make to us outside of that fantastic news? Well the son of Boaz and Ruth, Obed was David’s great grandfather. Are you getting the picture? The descendent of two every day ordinary people, who just did the right thing, became our saviour. The DNA of these two guys was in Jesus, in the same way that the DNA of your parents is in you. It’s amazing how God will use you when you do the right stuff. How’s God going to use you?
