“As it happened”
June 21, 2018
I’m a fan of Ruth. I hope to find her in Heaven and ask her what gave her courage to leave her homeland, to bond to another widow, Naomi, who was struggling with loss herself. Ruth left her relatives, her customs, her familiar setting. And then she follows instruction in her new country to go into a field as an alien to work alone.
Ruth 2: 3 “As it happened” she came to the part of the field belonging to Boaz. Her future husband, father of her son in Jesus’ lineage. “As it happened.” No coincidence here, rather a God designed, God ordained, plan orchestrated by the hand’s of God. True in our lives as well. There is no ‘as it happened.’ God’s hand is everywhere.