What Did He Give Up?

This morning, I listened to the book of Ruth on the Daily Audio Bible podcast. The law in Israel, at that time, was for a Kingsman Redeemer to marry a woman if she became a widow. Ruth a widow, at the directions of her mother-in-law, Naomi, goes to Boaz. The man informs her of a closer redeemer and gives that man an opportunity to marry Ruth. The man declines and Boaz becomes the Kingsman Redeemer. Ruth becomes the great-great grandmother of King David and in the genealogy line of Jesus.

The reason the closer redeemer gave in saying no: "It would mess up my inheritance." Oh, how wrong he was in the eternal scope of things.

He gave up an eternal honor for a temporary inheritance.