Musings and Contemplations

Isaiah 40:3 ESV
In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

2 Peter 3:8-9 NRSV
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

Ruth 1:16 NRSV
But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

William Barclay
There is comfort in the thought of a God who has all eternity to work in. It is only against the background of eternity that things appear in their true proportions and assume their real value . . . As Peter saw it, the years God gave the world were a further opportunity for men to repent and turn to him. Every day which comes to us is a gift of mercy. It is an opportunity to develop ourselves; to render some service to our fellowmen; to take one step nearer to God.[1]

Jerome
Ruth, a foreigner, did not leave Naomi’s side. See how much merit there is in standing by the deserted in solace. From her seed, Christ is born.[2]

Heidelberg Catechism Question #15
What manner of mediator and deliverer must we seek?
One who is a true and righteous man, and yet more powerful than all creatures; that is, one who is withal true God.

Heidelberg Catechism Question #1
Who is that Mediator who is at once true God and a true, righteous man?
Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.

Lord,without you I can do nothing; with you I can do all. Help me by your grace, that I fall not; help me by your strength, to resist mightily the very first beginnings of evil, before it takes hold of me; help me to cast myself at once at your sacred feet, and lie still there, until storm be overpast; and, if I lose sight of you, bring me back quickly to you, and grant me to love you better. Amen.[3]

Ruth’s Song (Where You God, I Will Go)

[1] The Daily Study Bible, The Letters of James and Peter, pp. 342-343.
[2] Ancient Christian Commentary Volume IV, p. 184.
[3] E. B. Pusey, English priest and Hebrew scholar, found in O Come, O Come Emmanuel by Jonathan Gibson, p. 67.