No Coincidence

Passage – Na‘omi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Adonai, who has never stopped showing grace, neither to the living nor to the dead.” Na‘omi also told her, “The man is closely related to us; he’s one of our redeeming kinsmen.” Ruth 2:20

Restates in my own words – Naomi told Ruth that she hoped God would bless Boaz as the Lord had showed them grace because he is related to them and could be a potential kinsman redeemer.

Application to my life – There are no coincidences, only God’s grace and favor of blessing. Ruth could have ended up anywhere but God’s Grace took her right where she needed to be. God works like that if we’re looking to acknowledge him. He will show off if we just give him the credit and sometimes even when we don’t at the moment.

I look at the timing for my reconciliation with my grandmother and I see His grace. I see how He orchestrated the day of my mother’s death to give me what I needed (An answered a very specific prayer), I see His grace. I see how He connected me with my husband at the right time and see His blessing and grace. God amazes me with his love for me. It’s not that my life has forever been easy but God’s Grace has kept His hand on me and guided things even through my rebellion.

He gives us free will but He is there showing His grace to try to get us where He can bless us the most His will. As was the lineage of David, what if Ruth had disobeyed God in her first marriage? That marriage was tied to Boaz by family. It was God who brought her to this place of stepping into His will. She could have returned home like Orpah did yet God knew it was through Ruth His kingdom would be established.

Your response back to God – Lord I don’t always see Your hand in the moment but I know that Your grace has been on my life. I don’t know the plans and purposes You have for me but I want to follow You. Where You go, I want to be. The thing You created me to be, I want to be. I know that involves being a wife, a mother and a grandmother. Everything else, despite knowing that I am in the career and job I’m supposed to be in and the church I’m planted in, I don’t know the next step or plan. Show me what to do, what You want me to be. Help me be courageous enough to step out in obedience completely and constantly.