Ruth 3:

1. One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not now try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for?

2. Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing-floor

3. Wash and perfume yourself, and put on your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing-floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating, and drinking…..”

The statements of Naomi indicate a well thought-out strategy for a godly purpose. Over righteousness tendencies can make her miss the the inner promoting; the desire to find rest for her daughter. If she has revealer this plan to anybody, she’s likely to be suspected of unorthodoxy. Somebody will be there to remind her that it’s never so done in Israel. However, the urge to find rest for this young woman over rules all other considerations. She teaches Ruth what to do to attract Boaz’s attention, a gesture of “look to my side; I love you and you stand the chance of making it will me!” This looks worldly, but it happens to be of God.

Ruth obeys her mother’s instructions. This is obedience against tradition. In that part of the world, for marriage, it’s the male that takes the initiative, the first step. Tradition restricts the female, even if dying of love for the man, from taking the first step. Naomi breaks this, teaches the daughter something different from tradition and let her loose. This newly introduced Naomic principle, prophetic in dimension, is continue  in the 21st century as young women, firebrand christians, are now taking to dating sites to get husbands.

Ruth doesn’t need persuasions, either, for on that first day of meeting of the two, she saw in the man one who was full of the love of God, one who had reference to the God of Israel; the man was devoted and had confident faith. He didn’t take advantage of her; so he was a man full of integrity. Boaz, on the other hand, was dazed with a woman who was so virtuous, empathic and devoted. He says of her: Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hath shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich…. for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman” (Ruth 3:10-11). He notices that she’s a woman, out of love and kindness, is singularly committed to God and her mother-in-law, not flirtatious, never running around with tempting young men nor sexually explicit even though she’s from Moab where these virtues are rare. The woman has been truly won from one kingdom to another; truly translated from one power to another (Colosians 1:13 and Acts 26:18). The transition has been completed and thorough

As the man Boaz and the woman Ruth stand at the threshing-floor together, passion has been aroused and the two have merged into one, yet the man of integrity towards God holds back from the plunge, knowing in him that there’s a man who is still closer to Ruth than himself – therefore, more right to Ruth than himself. He calls Ruth for patience until he’s done all diligence.

Lord, my heart seek passionately for you. I seek you because I love you. You’re are greater than life for me. This is what I am and this is my confession. 

Lord, I enter into this estate not only positionally but in truth, in reality of living.

Lord, thank You