THE BEST IS AHEAD
RUTH 2:1-23, JOB 5: 5:19-22
Have you noticed that no matter how poor a community is, there will always be one or two people of wealth? They lend to other people in want. While others are running into debt, these people are smiling to their banks. In the midst of the general squalor that usually characterizes famine, these people stand out. They shine against the tide of popular destruction and deprivation. When others are crying it is a casting down, their own confession is that it is a lifting up! One of such men was Boaz. Just imagine it. This man belonged to the same family as Elimelech who fled the famine. In the same land that turned Elimelech into an economic refugee, Boaz became a man of great wealth! How did he do it? What did he know that Elimelech did not? Let us examine a little of the secrets of making it in the season of famine. These are things we believe Boaz must have been aware of and put into practice.
The first thing you must know is that the covenant is God’s answer to lifting his people out of famine and deprivation. Psalm 33:18-19. Check it: each time the people suffered and God remembered the covenant, he rescues his people. He also ensures that those who walk in the covenant stay on top. Get your bible; check for the terms of the covenant of wealth. Work at it. Do your own part. You will be amazed at your results.
You must also learn to hear from God and carry out his instructions. This was what made Isaac stand out. He was going to run away in search of greener pastures like Elimelech did years later. But God instructed him not to. And the rest is history. He became wealthier than the entire nation. You need to hear from God so that you can be great also. This was the secret of Job. “As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; when I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured me out rivers of oil”. Job 29:4. He had the secrets of God because he listened to God. And he had great wealth to show for it. This can also be your portion if you care to seek God’s face and receive instruction from him.
Finally, there is the principle of sowing and reaping. If you cannot till the ground, don’t expect harvest. If you must prosper, you need enterprise. Look at Isaac. He did not just sit down waiting for manna to fall from the sky. He tilled the ground, planted crops, watered it and nurtured the plants to harvest. This is where many get it wrong. We give offerings; we pray but we are not enterprising. God wants to bless the works of your hands, but since you lay hands on nothing. God has nothing to bless for you.
Beloved, if you will truly enjoy the abundance God has in stock for you this year, you must do these and follow other biblical principles we can’t go into right now. And you will be the Boaz of your community. The best is ahead for you. The God of heaven will favour you.
PRAYER: Lord give me my own secret. Job 29:4
