Have you ever read the Book of Ruth?? Ruth, a Moabitess, left home for Bethlehem with her mother-in-law, Naomi. She left her family, mother, father, sisters, brothers, to go with Naomi even though she tried to discourage her. We are all familiar with Ruth's statement - Where you go, I will go. That's beautiful in itself but going deeper into Ruth we can hear the symphony God is conducting. So far the instruments have just been tuning. Now the music begins, flutes and violins make their entrance as Ruth and Naomi take their journey. French horns join the movement as they set up house and begin the daily business of living. Drum roll as Ruth realizes she needs to work the fields in order to take care of her mother-in-law. Back to violins and add cellos and violas as she and Naomi discuss where she will glean. The rest is history. Boaz spotts her and God set in motion His marvelous plan. She eventually marries Boaz, the Kinsman Redeemer, and becomes one of the ancestors of Jesus.(Tympany roll and resounding cymbal clash!)
You may be thinking, what a romantic story. Someone should make it into a movie. What I see, though, is more than a love story. I see a great symphony, with God as conductor. Who could orchestrate a more beautiful love story with such a happy ending. Ruth played her instruments: selflessness in leaving her home, faithfulness to Naomi, willingness to work and take care of her. Boaz played his instruments: generosity to let her glean more than the leftovers, tenderness in seeing to her needs while she was working, protectiveness in allowing no one to molest her. And at the end of this masterpiece, Naomi praised God because she could hear the music and knew God had remembered them. Listen - Can't you hear the music, as well?
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