Dinner,movie and devotion.

It has been a few months again, that i ditch my blog and didn't bother to update a thing. Where should i start? hmm.. I'm currently doing well, studying at MAHSA university college, April batch. So far so good, can't believe it has been 2 months. Time flies. Getting use to the environment here, maybe a bit weird but..yea.



Back to the topic! :D Last night I had my dinner with my family, relatives and friends. Quite a long time we didn't hang out together though. It feels good, spending time together and chit-chatting. After the dinner, my eldest brother invited us to one of the church member's house, to get along with new friends or some old faces. So, only my bro, Yit Seng, Eyen and I went, my parents and relatives went home instead. Guess what, open house @@ a lot of food, can't take it in anymore as we had just finish our dinner. But still, we ate some.

Meanwhile, Pastor Joshua came to us and asked whether wanna watch a movie. lol.. And we plan to watch the A-Team. The A-Team is a nice,hilarious action movie. It's a must to watch.^^ The A-Team is about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a "crime they didn't commit". A group of Iraq War trying to take opportunities to clear their name with the U.S military from being committing a crime for which they were framed. Worth watching movie. :D

And today, this afternoon I did my devotion with Eyen. We studied the book of Ruth. The book of Ruth is about the importance of faithful love in human relationships among God’s kingdom people is powerfully underscored. The author focuses on Ruth’s unswerving and selfless devotion to desolate Naomi (1:16–17; 2:11–12; 3:10; 4:15) and on Boaz’s kindness to these two widows (chs. 2–4). He presents striking examples of lives that embody in their daily affairs the self-giving love that fulfills God’s law (Lev 19:18; cf. Ro 13:10). Such love also reflects God’s love, in a marvelous joining of human and divine actions (compare 2:12 with 3:9). In God’s benevolence such lives are blessed and are made a blessing.

It may seem surprising that one who reflects God’s love so clearly is a Moabitess. Yet her complete loyalty to the Israelite family into which she has been received by marriage and her total devotion to her desolate mother-in-law mark her as a true daughter of Israel and a worthy ancestress of David. She strikingly exemplifies the truth that participation in the coming kingdom of God is decided, not by blood and birth, but by the conformity of one’s life to the will of God through the “obedience that comes from faith” (Ro 1:5). Her place in the ancestry of David signifies that all nations will be represented in the kingdom of David’s greater Son.

As an episode in the ancestry of David, the book of Ruth sheds light on his role in the history of redemption. Redemption is a key concept throughout the account; the Hebrew word in its various forms occurs 23 times. The book is primarily a story of Naomi’s transformation from despair to happiness through the selfless, God-blessed acts of Ruth and Boaz. She moves from emptiness to fullness (1:21; 3:17; see notes on 1:1,3,5–6,12,21–22; 3:17; 4:15), from destitution (1:1–5) to security and hope (4:13–17). Similarly, Israel was transformed from national desperation at the death of Eli (1Sa 4:18) to peace and prosperity in the early days of Solomon (1Ki 4:20–34; 5:4) through the selfless devotion of David, a true descendant of Ruth and Boaz. The author thus reminded Israel that the reign of the house of David, as the means of God’s benevolent rule in Israel, held the prospect of God’s promised peace and rest. But this rest would continue only so long as those who participated in the kingdom—prince and people alike—reflected in their daily lives the selfless love exemplified by Ruth and Boaz. In Jesus, the great “son of David” (Mt 1:1), and his redemptive work, the promised blessings of the kingdom of God find their fulfillment.

That's all from now. =)

DT