Jesus Famous With Nate Holdridge

  "And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, 'Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.' And she said to her, 'Go, my daughter.'" (Ruth 2:2) As the sun rose, she hoped. Despair was not hers, not today. Here confidence melted the morning dew. Ruth turned to her mentor, her mother-in-law, her companion in life. Let me go to the field to glean, she said. I want to find someone who will let me gather the leftovers of the harvest. Why make such a request? Why head to the fields with an expectation any right-minded farmer would ever allow anyone, whosoever, wherever, to gather food, for themselves and no other, for free? Ruth was new to Israel. She lived during the time of the judges, a time when everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25). God’s people lived as though they were not at all governed by God’s law. Self-will ruled the day. People did not search the Scriptures. The norm was to follow the dictates of the heart, not the word of God. Bu