Oh, how rich is today’s reading! Have we said that before???

It is impossible for a believer to read the story of Ruth and not be overcome with its significance.
It is a story of how God puts ordinary people (Ruth and Boaz) together to do “extra” ordinary things.

Think about the genealogy of both of these people. Ruth was a descendant of the incestuous relationship of Lot and his daughters. Boaz was the son of the Jericho prostitute Rahab. And yet God chose Ruth and Boaz to be great grandparents of King David and so the ancestors of Jesus.

What foreshadowing in this quote to Boaz from the elders at the gate, “May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.”

Through the descendants of Boaz certainly came One who is and who was famous in Bethlehem!