Ruth: Women In The Bible Week 6

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"Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Now listen my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to vessels and drink what the men have drawn." Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favour in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?" But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother in law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people who you did not know before. The Lord repay you for what you have done and a full reward be given to you by the Lord, under whose wings you take refuge!"- Ruth 2v 8-12

"" The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance." Then the redeemer said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, less I impair my own inheritance. Take right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it."... "Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I have brought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chillon and to Mahlon."... Then the people who were at the gate and the elders said "May the Lord make the woman who is coming into our house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem, and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman." So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife, and the Lord gave her conception and she bore a son." - Segments from Ruth 4 v 1-13

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Sometimes in life we can feel like it's all a big mess, looking up to God all we see is mess, and nothing that even resembles a plan. Just like a cross stitch tapestry or baking a cake, when we put everything together or look at the underside of the cross stitch it looks like a whole mess, but once we take it out of the oven or turn it to the other side, it creates a beautiful masterpiece. At the beginning it may look like their was no plan, someone just went for the free for all method rather than concentrating on how to get the best results. 

To us God's plan sometimes can look like a whole lot of ugly, nothing look remotely like a good plan for our lives, but that is because we are on the underneath looking up or looking at a cake from the outside, we aren't the master bakers. God is. And we are his masterpiece. 

If we look at God's history, what he used and who he used to get to the birth of Jesus, the family line of Jesus Christ, is a crazy one, he used people we would never expect and he still uses those unexpected people and unexpected circumstances today. You would never have told Ruth that even after your husband, brother in law and father in law all died, you were going to meet someone and raise a family all directly linked to the birth of Jesus the ultimate Lord and Saviour. Even to me that sounds crazy, and more like a fantasy rather than this persons reality. 

God took Ruth's mess, her crazy situation and weaved his beautiful cross stitch to create something beautiful, which is what he does with each and everyone of us. He takes the mess and creates beauty, he takes each ingredient and mixes up the most beautifully perfect creation. All alone flour is pretty useless, your not exactly about to get a spoon and eat it out the bag, but God takes that flour and gives it meaning, without flour we wouldn't get bread, cakes, biscuits, etc... without God we have very little meaning and purpose, he gives us the purpose and creates beautiful things out of bags of flour.

He is the holder of our futures he's creating something wonderful for us and we are safe to wait for his timing before it is presented to us.  

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