Now Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a prominent rich man, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone in whose sight I may find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” So she went. She came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. As it happened, she came to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. (Ruth 2:1-3, NRSV)
Naomi and Ruth had returned from Moab to Bethlehem, but they had no one to care for them so they only hope they had was to glean from a field.
The barley harvest had started and so the famine was over and there was hope for the region. And all people would leave the edges of their fields for the widows and the poor to glean so they could eat and care for themselves.
So with nothing else to provide for them, Ruth went and gleaned in a field. And it just so happens that she gleans in a field owned by a relative of Naomi.
How has God worked in your life in ways that you may not have seen until the event was over?
Remember there is always hope.
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