Readings:
Psalm 22 Ruth 4:1-17 1 Timothy 5:17-25 Luke 14:1-11
Sermon:
When we last saw Naomi and Ruth, the two women were at the low point of their lives: Naomi’s husband and sons were dead and she was left destitute in a foreign land; Ruth’s husband, one of Naomi’s sons, had left her a widow without a child to carry on the family name. Left with nothing but their love for each other to sustain them, Naomi and Ruth travel back to Israel where they will have to depend on the kindness of their neighbors to keep them from starvation.
Tonight, however, we get to see the happy ending to this story, but before we can do that, we must endure some suspense. In chapters 2 and 3 of Ruth, an important character enters the scene: Boaz, a rich relative of Naomi’s late husband. Boaz shows his kindness to the two women by letting Ruth glean in his fields during harvest time, so that she might be able to provide for herself and Naomi. Gradually this sense of compassion grows into something more, and as tonight’s reading begins, Boaz is ready to marry Ruth, not only out of a sense of duty as her kinsman-redeemer, but out of a deep and abiding love.
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