{"id":3917,"date":"2017-08-27T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/27\/ruth-didnt-know\/"},"modified":"2017-08-27T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:00:03","slug":"ruth-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/27\/ruth-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth didn&#8217;t know\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after&nbsp;<\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">him<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">&nbsp;in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. &#8211; Ruth 2:2<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ruth didn&#8217;t know she was going to happen upon a corner of a field that happened to belong to a wealthy relative of her mother-in-law. (Ruth 2:3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ruth didn&#8217;t know she was going to be given &#8220;handfuls of purpose&#8221; by those she was reaping behind. (Ruth 2:16)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ruth didn&#8217;t know she was going to go from gleaning in a corner of the field, to owning the entire field- and many lands besides &#8211; when she married Boaz, the lord of the estate. (Ruth 4:13)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ruth didn&#8217;t know she was going to be the Great Grandmother of the greatest king of Israel (Ruth 4:17)&#8230;and a named ancestor in the lineage of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ruth didn&#8217;t know any of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">All she knew was that she was going to go to the field to glean corn&#8230;and see what would happen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">And what happened was that Ruth received something far greater than anything she hoped for&#8230;simply because she took a step of faith.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Now it&#8217;s your turn. Take a step of faith, make a move&#8230;and don&#8217;t allow inaction to rob you of all the amazing happenstances that you didn&#8217;t know were waiting on you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAnd Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after&nbsp;him&nbsp;in whose sight I shall find grace. 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