“Take me under your wing!”

These were the words of Ruth the Moabitess who had immigrated with her mother-in-law back to the land of Judah. 

She had experienced the hopelessness of the gods of Moab, and wanted to put her trust in the true and living God. When she meets Boaz, she recognizes him as a place of refuge and requests to be taken under his wing. (Ruth 3:9)

When a person encounters the life-changing power of Jesus Christ, they can only cry out with Ruth, “Take me under your wing!” The promise is sure! 

“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” (Psalms 91:4) 

As believers in Jesus Christ, we are saved from the wrath to come! 

“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”(Romans 5:8-11)

Ruth had come for refuge under the wings of the Lord God of Israel. (Ruth 2:12) Will you? 

The words of the following song say it well, 

“When free grace awoke me by light from on high, then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die; no refuge, no safety in self could I see, Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be!” -I once was a stranger to grace & to God; by Robert Murray McCheyne

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8, 9) 

To the unknown God

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

And He has made from ONE BLOOD every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

so that they should SEEK THE LORD, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to REPENT, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man (Christ Jesus) whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” (The Bible; Acts 17)