Ruth 1:3
1. Don’t become bitter in your season of transition.
Ruth 1:11
Ruth 1:20
2. Find a Ruth in your season of transition.
Ruth 1:16
3. Get into agreement with God.
Ruth 3:3-4
““Take a bath. Put on some perfume. Get all dressed up and go to the threshing floor. But don’t let him know you’re there until the party is well under way and he’s had plenty of food and drink. When you see him slipping off to sleep, watch where he lies down and then go there. Lie at his feet to let him know that you are available to him for marriage. Then wait and see what he says. He’ll tell you what to do.””
Ps 37:23
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.”
Proverbs 3:6
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Ruth 2:5
“Boaz asked his young servant who was foreman over the farm hands, “Who is this young woman? Where did she come from?””
Ruth 2:6-2:10
“The foreman said, “Why, that’s the Moabite girl, the one who came with Naomi from the country of Moab. She asked permission. ‘Let me glean,’ she said, ‘and gather among the sheaves following after your harvesters.’ She’s been at it steady ever since, from early morning until now, without so much as a break.”
Ruth 2:11-2:13
“Boaz answered her, “I’ve heard all about you—heard about the way you treated your mother-in-law after the death of her husband, and how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth and have come to live among a bunch of total strangers. GOD reward you well for what you’ve done—and with a generous bonus besides from GOD, to whom you’ve come seeking protection under his wings.”
This is KEY:
Ruth 2:20
“Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Why, GOD bless that man! GOD hasn’t quite walked out on us after all! He still loves us, in bad times as well as good!” Naomi went on, “That man, Ruth, is one of our circle of covenant redeemers, a close relative of ours!””
Ruth 3:1
“One day her mother-in-law Naomi said to Ruth, “My dear daughter, isn’t it about time I arranged a good home for you so you can have a happy life? And isn’t Boaz our close relative, the one with whose young women you’ve been working? Maybe it’s time to make our move. Tonight is the night of Boaz’s barley harvest at the threshing floor.”