Many Christians cringe when they hear about sex abuse, but the statistics today are 1 in 4 girls are being sexually molested by a trusted adult in their lives. The guilt and shame they experience is no different than what the Moabites may have felt when they learned about God's law against such sexual sin. Many children are taught by their abuser that this perverted behavior is okay, but when they are older and learn that it is wrong, guilt, shame, and condemnation follows.
Christ has redeemed us from ALL guilt, shame, and condemnation by shedding His blood on the cross! We see a beautiful picture of this in Ruth when she approaches Boaz (a picture of Jesus, the kinsman redeemer) and asks that he take her as his wife and propogate her family's seed i.e. have children with her. Unlike Lot's daughters who used their own efforts to prosper and increase, Ruth relied on God through her kinsman redeemer, Boaz. She did not fill him with wine and lay with him as he slept, thus seducing him as Lot's daughters did with their father, but rather she laid at Boaz's feet and asked for God's covering and protection. It is a picture of the cursed line of Moab being made new and brought into a fresh bloodline that produced David, the future king of Israel, as well as Jesus the Messiah! The cursed bloodline became blessed!
Have you felt shame, guilt, and condemnation because of past sexual sin that was inflicted on you or that you may have engaged in willingly? Then know that in Christ, there is no shame, guilt or condemnation for anything! You are forgiven for all sin, past, present, and future! You are a new creation in Jesus, and like Ruth, are brought into a fresh, blessed bloodline, the bloodline of the risen Lord!
