Thursday, March 28

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Personal Life

An Instinct for Blessing

Listen here or enjoy the read below: 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 1 In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famin