I wanted this blog to be about generational preparation by God--I was in a bible study tonight and we started reading Ruth and I was struck as to how much preparation by God went into Ruth and Boaz meeting and falling in love. How if Rahab hadn't helped the spies and thus been spared from the fall of Jericho then her son Boaz would have never met Ruth, for he would have never existed. If Ruth hadn't lost her huband and then decided to stay with her mother-in-law instead of her family for 10 years she too would have lost out. How much detail goes into the makings of the right moment and person! Have I ever even considered that what is directed or placed or decided now can have such a profound effect on my family; how much those decisions from 50 years ago can manifest themselves today?
But what has been in my head tonight is forgiveness. God can plan into the infinate future, but yet he is so good at forgetting the past. How am I to be like this? How am I to take the shortcomings, misundersandings and personality quirks of those I love and, with grace and patience, love them anyway? God has a standard that we are to live up to, yet he knows we cannot do it alone. Do I have a standard in my life that I hold others to, yet do not show mercy when they undoubtly fail?
Where are those decisions and directions in my life that I stumble over now, and only later will see the complete plan of he who made it so? I am at a loss for words, realizing that something as minute as my lovelife may have had generational preparation...and generational consequences.
