“Blessed Be The Man
Who Took Notice Of
You”
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come
here, and eat some of this bread, and dip your morsel in the sour wine.” So she
sat beside the reapers, and he heaped up for her some parched grain. She ate
until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. When she got up to glean,
Boaz instructed his young men, “Let her glean even among the standing sheaves,
and do not reproach her. You must also pull out some handfuls for her from the
bundles, and leave them for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”
So she gleaned in the field until
evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. She picked it up and came into the town,
and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then she took out and gave
her what was left over after she herself had been satisfied. Her mother-in-law
said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be
the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had
worked, and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
The book of Ruth vividly portrays the
principle of giving. When Boaz saw Ruth gathering grain behind the reapers in
his field, he commanded them to leave some handfuls of grain for her. To her,
this was a blessing from the Lord.
In the same way, the people whose
lives we touch need to experience God’s love through our compassion and
generosity. That is why we should ask God to make us aware of opportunities to
show kindness.
Kindness is
the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Our Daily
Bread –