Showing posts with label ruth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ruth. Show all posts

Feb 12, 2023

WHOSE IS THIS?

That question was asked several times in the Old Testament.

When Boaz saw Ruth in his fields, his first reaction wasn't: "Get that gaudy-looking foreigner off my property--everyone knows Moabites are only trouble!"

No; he'd heard of all Ruth had done, the discrimination she'd risked for Naomi and was impressed with her unselfishness and industriousness. 

He asked the reapers, "Whose damsel is this?" (Ruth 2:5)

King Saul saw the shepherd David unable to bear a giant's taunts of his God...and then that boy gallantly did away with that pagan warrior!

He found himself wondering "whose son the stripling was" (Sam. 17:56) This was no average young man before his eyes.

Do we live in such a way people around us ask right away whose we are?