“‘Keep your eyes on whichever field the reapers are working in, and follow the girls. I’ve ordered the young men not to bother you. Whenever you get thirsty, go and drink from the water jars the young men have filled.’  She fell on her face, prostrating herself, and said to him, ‘Why are you showing […]

“Boaz said to Rut, ‘Did you hear that, my daughter? Don’t go to glean in another field, don’t leave this place, but stick here with my working girls’”-Ruth 2:6-8 There’s one misconception about Boaz we need to put to rest. He was NOT some dashing young prince riding to the rescue of a lovely damsel […]

“She said, ‘Please, let me glean and gather what falls from the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she went and has kept at it from morning until now, except for a little rest in the shelter.”-Ruth 2:7 Take a look at these three English words: LIVE RESUME TEAR Now what do you think these words […]

“Then Bo‘az asked his servant supervising the reapers, ‘Whose girl is this?’  The servant supervising the reapers answered, “She’s a girl from Mo’av who returned with Na‘omi from the plain of Mo’av.”-Ruth 2:5-6 Words have power… And some words have more power than others… Consider the question Boaz asked the man supervising his workers when […]

“So she set out, arrived at the field and gleaned behind the reapers.  She happened to be in the part of the field that belonged to Bo‘az from Elimelekh’s clan, when Boaz arrived from Beit-Lechem. He said to the reapers, ‘YEHOVAH be with you’; and they answered him, ‘YEHOVAH bless you.‘”-Ruth 2:3-4 Although Ruth had no idea […]