- Day 48 of 50, and we are going strong with this powerful word from Ruth 2. You’ll be super blessed by this! 📖🔥🤗
- You can join in fully and let’s “tattoo” God’s Word in our hearts! 📖🤍
- God bless you, and looking forward to your lessons, insights, and comments.
So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” ~ Ruth 2:2
From today’s reading, I found it amazing how Ruth’s life exhibited such admirable qualities: She was hardworking, loving, kind, faithful, took initiative, and was brave.
Ruth took the initiative to provide for herself and Naomi, even though the situation required intense work and could have been dangerous (if she had found herself in a field owned by a hostile farmer).
- Interestingly, many ladies pray that they would meet their ‘Boaz,’ but I wonder if they know, have, or are developing the qualities of a ‘Ruth.’
- Think about it, why should God give you a Boaz when you’re not a Ruth? We all have a lot to learn from the example of Ruth.
- Learn to accept responsibility for your life and take bold initiatives. God has empowered us with grace and commanded us to work and take care of ourselves and others also.
Ruth went job hunting, from field to field, seeking a place to work so she could fend for herself and her mother-in-law, Naomi. That is maturity – accepting full responsibility for the life God has given you. Dear friend, there are times when tough work with little rest is our only option.
And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house.” Then Boaz said to Ruth, “You will listen, my daughter, will you not? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close by my young women." ~ Ruth 2:7-8
- Boaz noticed Ruth when she was working hard and with tenacity.
- In fact, he was so impressed with Ruth that he let her follow directly behind his harvesters so she could pick up the choicest grain that they dropped.
- When Ruth took initiative and started working hard, God caused her to be noticed and helped!
The help was not to take away the responsibility or the hard work. It was to give her grace and favor for higher rewards than usual! God blesses the work of our hands and causes the outputs from our hard work to be multiplied! (1 Cor 15:10).
Ruth, from her point of view, probably chose the field where she gathered grain randomly. But God knew exactly which field would lead her to cross paths with Boaz. May the Lord order our steps as we take initiative and work as He has instructed us to.
- God was orchestrating a beautiful story, but Ruth had to do her part as well. She accepted the menial task she was given and respected the servants of the fields.
- What if she had considered herself too proud or embarrassed to work in the fields? Maybe felt she was young and beautiful, and then chose to accept the charity of someone else.
- Well, she would have missed the opportunity to meet Boaz, which would change her life and give her the honour of becoming the ancestor of a king and the Messiah.
Let’s pray that we will not miss our divine orchestrated opportunities and connections by neglect, laziness, apathy and nonchalance.
- Have you ever met someone, and although you did not know them, they caught your attention instantly?
- You could be surrounded by thousands of people, but they are the ones who catch your attention.
- In relation to you, that person becomes an eye-catcher. An eye-catcher is a person who attracts attention and special favour.
One of my fathers in the faith shared about an incident that happened once when he was on a plane that was full. There was a decision to upgrade someone. The air hostess scanned many faces and finally pointed to him. He attracted her attention and was moved to business class. What made him catch the attention of the air hostess?
Ruth was a poor, widowed, Moabite woman. But as she worked on the field of Boaz, she caught his attention. What will make a rich man take notice of an “insignificant person” like Ruth and eventually marry her?
So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”
Grace can make this possible. Ruth said, “Why have I found grace in your eyes?” The grace of God can make you an eye-catcher!
- In an interview, you will need it to be chosen above many other candidates. In marriage, you will need it to be chosen above several alternatives.
- In promotion, you will need it to be selected above equally competent people. In business, you may need it to be selected above other companies.
- In relation to God, we will need it to be chosen by Him for a special purpose and anointing.
Pray for the grace to be an eye-catcher.
Does it matter to you how you behave privately and secretly, where few see or know what you do and there seems to be no visible reward for good behavior? It could be in your marriage, office, home, or how you relate to others.
And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before."
Ruth treated her aging mother-in-law (Naomi) very well. Although her works were not visible to many, her good works were “told” to others. And they finally reached the ears of Boaz, who was a rich, unmarried man.
- Let us decide to do the right things secretly and privately consistently; you and I never know to whom it will be “told.”
- A good recommendation can give you favour even before strangers and open great doors.
- If something is to be “told” about you, what will it be? Write a good story about your life. May grace be made available to us all, Amen!
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