Ruth Receives Gifts from Boaz (Ruth 3:15-17)

4/4/2010 8:47 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                              Focus: Ruth receives gifts from Boaz

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Ruth 3:15-17

 

            Message of the verses:  “15  Again he said, "Give me the cloak that is on you and hold it." So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. Then she went into the city. 16  When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" And she told her all that the man had done for her. 17  She said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ’Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

            I want to copy and paste the sixteenth verse from the KJV, “16  And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.”  According to Warren Wiersbe the way that it is translated in the KJV is the way that it should be translated and it has given problems to scholars for a long time.  He writes that Naomi could have asked this question to find out if Ruth was engaged, which does make sense.  All that it says in the LXX is “My daughter,” and does not add anything else so it still remains a mystery.

            Boaz now gives Ruth a gift because of his love for her, a gift of two bushels of barley that would last Naomi and her for two weeks.  This is now different than when he allowed Ruth to gleam in his fields even though he provided a way for her to gleam a lot of grain. 

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I can say that there are far too many times when I receive gifts from the Lord that I don’t even realize or give thanks for them.  He does this because of His great love for me and I am sorry that I don’t give thanks for the wonderful gifts that He gives me, gifts like the food that sustains me each day.  I think that the important thing for me to remember is that He gives me these gifts because of His great and wonderful love for me.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. “It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; 2  To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness by night.”

 

4/4/2010 9:16 AM