TOPIC: LESSON FROM NAOMI AND RUTH. Don’t Tag Naming Yourself (4)
MEMORY VERSE:
Psalms 32:8.
“8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
BIBLE READING:
Ruth 1:19-21.
“19. So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?”
“20. And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.”
“21. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?”
May we not introduced ourselves wrongly below God’s purpose for our lives in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
Naomi and Ruth started the long journey back to Bethlehem, after many days they arrived. The scripture said, “the city was moved when Naomi arrived”. Her absence all along was felt, now, seeing her, regardless of the losses, her presence moved the whole city. That you look like nobody today doesn’t mean you should give others room to call you names. I don’t know who I’m speaking to this moment, you’re still on a journey, yet to arrive where God is taking you to, so don’t conclude that it is finished, God is still working on you for a better place in Jesus name, Amen. Jesus was beaten, tortured, reproached and humiliated, but that wasn’t His place or the end of Him, His end was at the right hand of God, beloved, don’t call this your end.
Naomi concluded by telling her friends and relatives to call her Mara, meaning bitterness, because she lost her husband and two sons. But look at who she became at the end of the day. Stop tagging/ naming yourself because of your present situation, it’s a journey not a destination. Listen, you don’t have it or you’ve not made it doesn’t mean you can’t have it or make it. It simply means you haven’t had it yet or made it yet. Listen to those who made it, there was one time in their life when they never had it. Stop naming yourself according to your circumstances. Naomi is still Naomi not Mara. Yoruba adage said, “We don’t get taller the same day we begin to grow” we grow gradually, so while growing don’t conclude you can’t grow more than a particular height. Yes, God might be angry and disciplining you but my scripture tells me that, “FOR HIS ANGER ENDURETH BUT A MOMENT; IN HIS FAVOUR IS LIFE: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.- Psalms 30:5.
God has forgiven you along time ago according to His words in Psalms 103:10,
“10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.”
Stop reminding God you sinned against Him. Call yourself whom God called you, “A Royal priesthood”, “A Holy name”, “The apple of God’s eye”, not names that attract negativity. Start calling yourself the right name according to where you are going not where you are.
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