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Finding a New Home

“At mealtime Boaz said to her, ‘Come …. Have some bread and dip it in the wine.’ When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.” Ruth 2:14

As a military family, my wife and I know the pain of moving constantly and the fears that come with adjusting in an unfamiliar land. All the unknowns can be overwhelming. How much more so for Ruth the Moabitess, who left everything for a land she had never visited? And what about the very real possibility of her journey ending in disaster?

Now in Bethlehem, she is met with a welcome beyond her wildest expectations. Boaz tells her to drink freely of the water that others have drawn (v. 9), to glean at liberty from his fields (vv. 14-16), and that he has charged the men not to harm her (v. 9). In other words, she will thirst no more, she will hunger no more, and every tear will be wiped from her eyes, just as Revelation 7:15-17 says.

She has found welcome, warmth, and security with God’s people. In finding her home with God’s people, she is receiving a foretaste of our forever home in glory with Christ Jesus. And this is what gathering with God’s people on the Lord’s Day should be like for us, friend. Today, we taste; tomorrow, we feast.

SCRIPTURE FOCUS
Ruth 2:8-16

INSIGHT
Together, we taste the goodness of the Lord now, knowing that we will feast in the future, as Revelation 19 tells us.

THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Numbers 25-26
Psalm 74
John 16

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