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Living Nativity Update
Starting with the end in mind - Naomi does this.
Weeks have passed and now the harvest has ended.
Naomi and Ruth are in a better spot emotionally, not great, but Naomi is now thinking about the future and she realizes that she must act in order for Ruth to find rest or a resting place.
So what is this rest Naomi is seeking for Ruth?
A place to lay her head or something more?
It is something more, much more.
Naomi desires for Ruth a secure life, a home, provision, and protection.
She wants Ruth to have a place where she can have a future and a hope and the only way for Ruth to have this rest is through a redeemer.
So Ruth goes to the threshing floor and worked the plan.
She waited for Boaz to finish working.
She waited for Boaz to finish eating and drinking.
She waited for Boaz to fall asleep.
Then she went in and uncovered his feet and legs and laid down.
Midnight he wakes up and says
So Ruth has come and asked Boaz to the the agent of God to cover her.
Boaz is amazed that Ruth came to him and not a younger man.
Boaz agrees to redeem Ruth if the nearer redeemer won’t.
They lay until morning and he sends her away with food before others awake so none will think that Ruth was prostituting herself.
Ruth returns to Naomi and recounts the night and shows the ground barley.
Naomi believes their redemption is happening soon.
Now it is easy to get lost in this chapter, there is intrigue, questions, suspense, shock, etc. but we have to remember the tension,
Ruth needs a resting place and the only way for her to have that is through the work of a redeemer.
This is the exact situation all peoples have today.
We are all without a certain hope for the future.
We know the reality of life and certainty of death.
We need rest.
The Psalmist knew this,
and Jesus promised it.
but how do we get this rest for our souls?
Through knowing the redeemer.
In 1987, eighteen-month-old “Baby Jessica” fell twenty-two feet into a Texas well.
Rescuers labored nonstop to save her.
After fifty-five grueling hours, her life hanging in the balance, they finally reached her and extracted her from the well.
The nation breathed a sigh of relief and cheered the heroes.
This was not the story: “Baby Jessica clawed her eighteen-month-old body up the side of that twenty-two foot well, inch by inch, digging in her little toes and working her way up.
She’s a hero, that Jessica!”
The story was she was helpless and needed total help, just like Ruth and just like you.
GOSPEL - final rest
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