254. The Lord will renew your life: He will sustain you in old age.

24 February 2022
“He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age.”

Ruth 4
15 “He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Psalm 92 KJV
13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.

Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall still bring forth fruit in old age.

The Genealogy of David

Ruth 4
18 This, then, is the family line of Perez:
Perez was the father of Hezron,
19 Hezron the father of Ram,
Ram the father of Amminadab,
20 Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon,
21 Salmon the father of Boaz,
Boaz the father of Obed,
22 Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of David.

The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

Matthew 1 (through verses 1 - 16)
6 and Jesse the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asa,
8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram,
Jehoram the father of Uzziah,
9 Uzziah the father of Jotham,
Jotham the father of Ahaz,
Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,
Manasseh the father of Amon,
Amon the father of Josiah,
11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
12 After the exile to Babylon:
Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,
Abihud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 Azor the father of Zadok,
Zadok the father of Akim,
Akim the father of Elihud,
15 Elihud the father of Eleazar,
Eleazar the father of Matthan,
Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Our fruit are our children and our children's children and succeeding generations.

What do the two above  genealogies have to do with Naomi?

By tradition written down by Moses (Luke 20:28), Obed the son of Boaz with Ruth is deemed the son of Ruth's first husband Mahlon. Mahlon was one of the two sons of Naomi and his husband Elimelek (also Elimelech). Boaz was a close relative of Mahlon, he was a guardian-redeemer (Ruth 2:20).

Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab by William Blake, 1795
Public domain

Our fruit is our influence on others.

I would say Naomi definitely had a positive influence on her daughter-in-law Ruth.

Ruth 1
16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 
17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”

Honestly, it took some time for me thinking how to develop this blog until I got the idea of our children and our influence as our fruit.

Our children are gift from the Lord.

For my wife Marlou and I, we consider our children to be fruit of God's grace. They became Christians, at their own volition, few years after Marlou and I accepted Jesus as personal Lord and Savior in 2004.

Our eldest daughter is involved with the church's Communications Team attending to the online platform for the Sunday worship, mid-week prayer meeting and other related activities. She and our son-in-law are cell group leaders at church.

Our other daughter is enrolled with Bible Study Fellowship (BSF), she and her husband are attending a cell group at church.

Our son, the youngest, and his wife are cell group leaders at church.

Marlou and I are also enrolled with BSF, and we are cell group leaders at church.

Our grandchildren have been introduced to Sunday school.



They will still bear fruit in old age,
    they will stay fresh and green,
proclaiming, “The Lord is upright;
    he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.” Psalm 92:14-15

""“Even to your old age and gray hairs
    I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Turn to me and be saved,
    all you ends of the earth;
    for I am God, and there is no other”" (Isaiah 46:4; 45:22).Lord, sustain me as I age; I shall go on proclaiming Your lovingkindness, in Jesus' name. Amen.

25 March 2018"

May you be blessed with God's Word.

Maraming salamat.


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