“So Ruth stayed by the young women
of Boaz until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.” Ruth 2:23
Jesus talked finishing the task assigned to us. He likened our lives to
a servant who was put in charge of others until his master came back. The servant
did it for a while, but then grew tired of the task and slacked off in his
work. That servant was condemned by his returning master. The tiring work of
gleaning, the painful, back breaking work of gleaning, must have worn on Ruth,
but she stayed the course. Season after season of hard labor did not change her
mind or her intent to do what both Boaz and Naomi had told her to do.
God has given us plenty of work to do for Him. It is not easy work, or
everyone would want to do it. It isn’t highly rewarding work in the world’s
eyes, or everyone would want to do it. But He as called us to do it and if we
are faithful servants, we will. The reward will come.
Dear Father, Help us to not let
our hearts grow faint, but to be faithful. Amen
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