(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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Boaz on the brink!
This guy Boaz was righteous to a fault. By the time chapter 4 of Ruth comes around, it would appear that he was deeply in love with the woman and it is reasonable to assume the feeling was fully reciprocated. But he is not the type who trots away into the wild West once he gets the “gal”! A stickler for propriety, he first affords the privilege to a close kinsman-redeemer. He calls the kinsman; he comes. He asks him to sit down; he sits. He asks him to redeem Naomi’s land; he agrees. You can imagine Boaz’s heart sinking at every turn! (Time to start praying for him!!)
Will your faith hold when all hope is nearly gone?
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*6 Aug, setting 1 January as Day 1