Ruth 2:1-2 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter."
Boaz was a close relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of standing in the community. Ruth was a Moabite woman that had been married to one of Naomi’s sons. Her husband and both of her sons had died while they were in Moab. Naomi’s blessing on Ruth’s request to go and pick up the leftovers of the fields of Boaz had to do with the right of the poor to gather grain after the harvesters had finished their work (Leviticus 19:9-10 & 23:22).
This gleaning of the fields was allowed by God according to divine design; this was certainly not any chance meeting. What we see here are the deeds of Ruth working together with the providence of God. Eventually, of course, they were married, and from that union came Obed, the father of David, from whose genealogical line came our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
In our lives, God will always use His divine sovereignty and human deeds to work for His plans and His glory. Even though sometimes we might not realize it, our time is always in the hands of God; everything we do is because He allowed it. There will be times that we do not even understand or comprehend the significance of a decision that we have made. We decide on a course of action and then move on, only later to see God’s purpose in what we have done.
Joseph did not realize when his brothers sold him into slavery that it was God’s hand working in his life. God did not give Joseph an outline of events that would lead to him becoming the second most powerful man in Egypt. Only when his family came to him for help from the famine in Canaan, he ultimately realized what God had intended for him (Genesis 50:20).
What may seem like chance occurrences in our daily walk could very well be the providence and the Hand of God at work in our lives, much like He was with Ruth and Joseph.
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