Friday, February 13, 2009
Days 90 & 91 - Ruth & Boaz
i just really think that the story of Ruth and Boaz is a really sweet old-time love story. Ruth is a very honorable woman, though completely different from everybody else around her; she's from a different family and a different culture. Boaz is a really noble man, giving the outsider-lady a lot of REAL respect. and even when the idea of marriage come in, they don't rush through it all with no brains, they stay true to the traditions the culture observes during those times. through all of that, they honor God with their relationship. sometimes i think such respect for the opposite genders have been lost nowadays (and i admit, i'm not the most perfect in this area either... x]..). hopefully when/if i get involved in a relationship, it would be honoring to God like Ruth & Boaz's.
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That's a great post Tim. Your ability to derive meaning and value from this story reveals alot about your good heart, and the purity of your life. This is a very gentle, low key, tender story, such a contrast from the drama and of so many of the previous story. To many this story seems either strange or boring. Your ability to identify with the beauty and sweetness of this story, derive personal lessons is awesome. This and the Song of Songs are the best love stories in the Bible.
ReplyDeleteThere was this very famous Bible teacher named J. Vernon McGee (you can still hear him on the radio every day on a program called Thru the Bible where he teaches thru the entire Bible verse by verse in five years). He was pastoring in a small town in Texas, and he was interested in the young school teacher in the town who was the prettiest in the town. Unfortunately he had competition for her attention: a young man who was the son of the town's bank president, the richest man in the town. McGee was a very poor individual at that time. What won the lady's heart who became his wife, was that he taught her about the Ruth/Boaz love story.
Your comments show to me you have the requisite character and wisdom to establish a healthy, mutually beneficial, respectful, God honoring relationship. Whoever that young woman might be, she will consider herself very blessed by God.