An Instinct for Blessing
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I was reading recently a story of a cat that went on holiday with it's Florida owners (obviously well loved), 300 kms from home. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view of cats), the cat got lost. 3 months later the cat arrives back home, 300 kms later, warn out paws and bleeding feet. That is a high level of homing instinct!
I want to use the story of Ruth, in the Bible, to illustrate how we can develop an instinct also. An instinct for blessing. We are born with a nature that can lean us the other way. In fact even after finding Christ we can still find ourselves with a fear of success, an instinct for making the wrong decisions. But there is another way.
Ruth 1:1-6
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