The Call Of Connectivity
The Blessing In Your Connection
Ruth 1:16-17 (Amplified Bible)
16And Ruth said, Urge me not to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God.
17Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts me from you.
When I was in the Air Force some years ago, I became known, for my cooking. Often I would have people over and I would cook, we would eat hang out at my apartment and play board games, watch movies. My house over time often became a crash pad for the singles that normally lived in the dorms and lacked a home cooked meal. I found that what started off as a small gathering in its initial stages, became something that grew and became a major part of many people’s weekend plans. People who I did not know would hear of the gatherings at my apartment from their friends and ask for an introduction in order to be able to be a part. It was funny how many friends I made. You see they connected with me for one reason, and ultimately I became friend, counselor, big sister, surrogate mother, confidant and so many other things along the way. One individual even told me if they had not had me to call at one night they would have taken their life.
All too often we encounter people haphazardly. We do not look beyond a moment or beyond what they maybe able to do for us in that moment. We see an ends to a means, or someone that can fill a temporary void. But what if that person is who God placed in our path to usher in our blessing, or someone to whom our blessing is connected. In so many areas of my life I know that God has been faithful to me because of the prayers and the life of my grandmother, my mother and other individuals I have been connected to. I know that God has kept me, blessed me and bestowed upon me anointing that they prayed for long before me and ushered me into based upon me being able to see who God made them to be to me. When we don’t take the time to ask God who this individual is to us and what kind of connection is suppose to be; we will find ourselves connected to people we have no business being connected to and missing those that had our blessing or the connection to a blessing.
Ruth was able to see that in Naomi the Blessings of God was in following her, taking on her traditions values, advice and instruction. It was in her leaving what she knew and what was familiar to her and the people that she was connected to, in order for her to become connected with her destiny in a new place, new environment with new people. Her ability to see passed the obvious to what was God’s possibilities and intentions were ultimately blessed her and placed in the lineage of Jesus. What if she would have taken for granted her encounter with Naomi and when things looked bad she went back to what was comfortable, familiar and looked like her? But instead Ruth could see into Naomi to the connection with God that lay within her, the destiny that was to be birthed out of her, and the knowledge she was to bestow upon her. If she had just looked at her as an ends to a means she would have missed it, but she was able to see a means to her end and the beginnings God.
How many people has God sent into our lives to bless us, guide us, teach us, help deliver us, and we have missed it, because we could not see where we connected to them or they to us? Connectivity through God is no shallow matter it is deep enough that if you only glance or look for a moment you will miss it. Take a harder, deeper, more involved look, through the eyes of the spirit. Your blessing may be right in front of you!
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