Continue learning the lessons of Ruth and Boaz.

Boaz stands up to reveal the heart of the Father in his actions towards Ruth. He follows the Law, is blessed by the community in his taking Ruth as a wife, and goes on to create the line of David. Ruth stands in for every single person who is outside and an outcast, who is separate from God. This is God's heart on display. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to knowledge of Him. His heart is that they should be welcome.

How often do we judge people by the circumstances? How often do we look at someone because of where they come from or the way that they look, and we decide they fit in a box even before we know who they are? How much different would this story have been if Boaz had followed the Law without the heart of God?

The path to following God very rarely has supernatural events, divine visions, trumpets, or voices from heaven. For each of us it almost always involves daily, patient, careful obedience. Following through with what we know is right, regardless of what it costs us.