When God Visits, A Chain Reaction of Amazing Begins

When God visits, a chain reaction of amazing always begins.

 

Then [Naomi] arose with her daughters-in-law
that she might return from the country of Moab,
for she had heard in the country of Moab
that the Lord had visited His people by giving them bread.
Ruth 1:6

 

This summer all my brothers and sisters gathered on my parent’s farm

to celebrate their memories.

We spent 2 days reminiscing and sharing the stories of our life with mom and dad,

the things we learned from them that brought value to our lives,

we shared all of it:

the funny, the fights, the failures.

 

 

And one afternoon we did a serial visitation where we descended unannounced, visiting one house after another.

The places we visited were the next generation of our family: sons and daughters, their spouses and children.

We visited 7 homes that day.

Seven amazing homes filled with the same warmth, love and welcome that our parent’s home always had.

It is as if our parent’s spirit visited their homes and passed the blessings of their heritage on to the third and fourth generation.

(There’s even a fifth generation started already, in this our vast family!)

They have “the bread” our parents visited on them, and it is blessing them.

 

 

When God Visits, A Chain Reaction of Amazing Always Begins

In Naomi’s time of trouble – living in a land of famine, losing her husband and both her sons – she chose to go back home to find “the bread” God shared with His people. Moab, her home, had bread, because God visited the land and blessed them.

Naomi knew where to go.

And that started the amazing chain of events that resulted in Jesus birth into her family line generations later.

 

My parents visited a blessing on their line of inheritance
by choosing to live in God’s “land” eating His “bread” many years ago.
Their choices mean Jesus is still being born to their family line,
five generations later.

 

 

I pray these amazing visitations will continue.

My prayer today is that we all continue to experience powerful visitations of God

in our lives, our families, our work, our communities, and in our examples.

The kind of visitation that causes a chain reaction, with the power of what happened in Naomi’s time,

and people will be impacted and find “the land with the bread”

for generations to come.