Ruth Part 2: How A Little Service Goes a Long Way

 Bible, Women & Bathrobes Episode 4

In today’s episode we talk about Ruth chapter 2 where Ruth goes to glean barley in Boaz’s fields, and how his unexpected kindness is such a blessing to both Ruth and Naomi. We will also share how principles from this chapter apply to us today.

Key Talking Points

• What gleaning is with regards to the law of Moses and how that benefits Ruth and Naomi as widows.
• How Boaz shows kindness to Ruth in offering protection in his fields as she gleans, and shows extra kindness to her in offering water and food. When she asks why—he answers because she has been so kind to Naomi (his kinsman’s wife/widow).
• How this story isn’t just about redeeming Ruth & Naomi, it is a story of God redeeming Israel symbolically.
• Following Boaz’ example, we can invite new brothers and sisters in Christ to feel loved, wanted and nourished when they come into our congregations.
• What the Levirate law means for Ruth as a near kinsman.

Main Takeaways

• From Heather, “We can be generous in our service…being open hearted [with] your service [because it] is what someone needs…not being stingy, I guess, and being generous.”
• From Bonnie, regarding how much Ruth gleaned, “[It] brings me back to what our Savior has done for us. Right? He gives us extra when we come to Him with a willing heart and just this like little grain of faith. Right? He will magnify our efforts, and he will magnify our whole life and give us so much more than …what we expect.”
• From Bonnie again, “the whole point of the Bible study, is how do we become like Him and become more His disciples? And that's a perfect example of how to be a disciple of Christ is we're giving generously of our abundance.”
• From Tamara, “Often when we're feeling down and discouraged and have gone through something hard, like both Ruth and Naomi have,…we're wondering, Where are the windows of heaven that are supposed to open, right? I've gone through this hard time. Where are they? Where my answers? And God sends people to us that act is His hands. And what a blessing that is to know that others out there who are listening to God.”

Invitation from Bonnie

“And so for anyone listening out there who's wondering, how can I give back to the Savior? How can I, you know, magnify my calling? How can I make this work? Like think outside the box and ask Him, if you go to Him in prayer and in supplication, and ask how can I serve? Then he'll tell you he wants you to serve his fellow man, right? We are his hands and he will give you the ways and you will be richly blessed in abundance like Ruth was.

Today’s Podcast Hosts & Guests

Tamara K. Anderson

Tamara, founder of Women Warriors of Light, is a dynamic speaker, award winning author, and a podcaster. She is driven by her Christian faith to inspire faith in Jesus Christ. Alongside her husband, Justin, she navigates the joys and challenges of parenting four children with autism, ADHD, and mental health hurdles. You can find out more about Tamara on her website: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/

Bonnie Randall

Bonnie Randall is a wife, mother, trainer, speaker, actress, copywriter, heart centered life coach and has also been a business and marketing consultant for over 20 years. Her real passion is to help people grow as individuals and teach them how to resolve limiting beliefs. Bonnie enjoys teaching about mental health, abuse prevention and recovery classes. She runs a trauma recovery support group and YouTube channel called, Come Off Conqueror, which helps survivors of abuse find Christ centered healing. Find out more at: https://www.youtube.com/@comeoffconqueror

Heather B. Moore’s Bio

Heather B. Moore is a USA Today bestselling author of more than ninety publications. Heather writes primarily historical and #herstory fiction about the humanity and heroism of the everyday person. Publishing in a breadth of genres, Heather dives into the hearts and souls of her characters, meshing her love of research with her love of storytelling.

Her ancient era historicals and thrillers are written under pen name H.B. Moore. She writes historical women's fiction, romance and inspirational non-fiction under Heather B. Moore, and . . . speculative fiction under Jane Redd. This can all be confusing, so her kids just call her Mom. Heather attended Cairo American College in Egypt and the Anglican School of Jerusalem in Israel. Despite failing her high school AP English exam, Heather persevered and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University in something other than English.

You can find a Heather’s novel about Ruth here.

Please join Heather's email list at: HBMoore.com/contact/

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Keywords

#Naomi #Ruth #Boaz #Biblestory #harvest #Redemption #Biblewomen #service #bekind #BibleWomen&Bathrobes #podcast

Transcript

Tamara Anderson  0:00 

After going through a hard time and feeling like you might have been a little abandoned by God, have you ever wondered what the next step is? If you have, we're going to dive into the second part of Ruth today and kind of see what happens after her hardship and watch the beginning of the unfolding of God's redemption for her and see how we can apply it to us so stay tuned.

Tamara Anderson  0:28 

Welcome to Bible, Women & Bathrobes the podcast where faith meets comfort. Join us Tuesday and Thursday morning. As the gals from Women Warriors of Light and their guests, don bathrobes and dive into the inspiring stories of women in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. From Esther's bravery to the Sermon on the Mount. We explore it all with warmth, laughter, sisterhood, and maybe even a few sleepy eyed moments. tune in live or at your leisure as we learn lessons from scripture which empower women today.

Tamara Anderson  1:09 

Welcome to another episode of Bible, Women & Bathrobes. I'm your host Tamara K Anderson. And joining me is my co- host, Bonnie Randall, and we are blessed again, to have Heather B. Moore on. She is a USA Today Best Selling Author of over 90 publications. Oh my word! And we are so excited to have her joining us on this second part of talking about Ruth. Heather wrote an amazing novel about Ruth, we will be sure to link that in the show notes. And if you're wondering where you can find out more about Heather, please check out her website at HBmoore.com. And I will put all her bio in the link if you missed the intro last time. But Heather, thank you for being here with us again this morning.

Heather B. Moore  2:01 

Thanks for having me. I'm excited to talk about Ruth today and to hear about your insights as well.

Tamara Anderson  2:06 

Oh, I think we're all excited about this. So last week, we kind of left off with the story of Ruth and Naomi having lost their husbands. They came back to Bethlehem. Ruth is of Moabite descent and had converted and and so she went with her mother in law Naomi back to Bethlehem, which is where Naomi and her family were originally from. And this was done at great, personal sacrifice truth she could have stayed in Moab. And and Naomi encouraged her to do that get remarried, but she says no, I'm gonna go with you. And so we were able to see her love and kindness and dedication not only to Naomi, but to this new religion to her. And that's kind of where we pick up the story here.

Tamara Anderson  2:58 

Now, because Naomi and Ruth were both widows, they were in a very precarious position. As far as not having a way to sustain themselves. They didn't have a man to protect them. And although they were coming home to to be in the country where Naomi was from, they weren't able to access the land that her husband Elimelech had left behind. And so we'll kind of dive into the story of that part of it too.

Tamara Anderson  3:34 

But, Heather, I thought I'd start off and let you kind of talk us through the chapter two of Ruth, we start off with, with Ruth going and trying to glean barley in the fields that was time of the barley harvest. Could you talk us through why she had to do that and what gleaning meant.

Heather B. Moore  4:00 

Yeah, so we read in Ruth, chapter two verse two, it says, And Ruth the Moabites, sorry. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, let me now go to the field in glean ears of corn after him in who sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, go my daughter." So the question becomes, why does Ruth work in the field? And is this kind of a common practice? Is this her only option? So it seems that kind of, kind of, in general, in their culture throughout the land, women usually work you know, in their homes, obviously raising children taking care of their homes, but since with Naomi they don't have children, um, and they're widows, and then men work out in the fields. So there so there are, there are kind of three different times that I've discovered that women do become involved in agriculture, and one is gleaning, which is what Ruth does. One is herding. And we read about that in Genesis. Another is cultivation. And we read about that in the Song of Solomon.

Heather B. Moore  5:17 

So basically, it just it shows that this isn't something that the average woman does, but women that are more in a destitute need, they will go and glean in the fields. The other thing too, is that so basically field work is usually done by those who are poor, those who are enslaved, those who are desperate to  earn a living. In fact, in Deuteronomy 24, we learned that it's, it's one of their laws to help the poor, and that this is the way that they do it, is that they will leave and we learned about this a little bit later, is that they will leave extra I guess, corn or whatever, whatever their their farming, so that those who are coming behind the glean that they have the extra to take home and feed their families.

Tamara Anderson  6:17 

Yeah, so hard work. I mean, this is hard labor. The men were the people who usually harvested but any of the poor could come behind them.

Heather B. Moore  6:27 

yeah, so Ruth and Naomi would know about this law. So that's why they know it's an option for them.

Heather B. Moore  6:33 

Yeah. Bonnie.

Bonnie Randall  6:34 

So gleaning is, from what I understand, tell me this is right. Leaning is after while they're harvesting, there's things that fall off. Like if they're harvesting wheat, or corn, or like, not everything gets into the bundle, there'll be pieces that fall on the ground, and gleaning means that people come in behind them and pick up stuff. Is that correct? Or is it that there's I think I remember last time, one of you mentioned that there's a quarter of the field, that they're allowed to glean, and so they're not allowed to glean in the whole field. Do you know exactly how the gleaning works?

Heather B. Moore  7:17 

Yeah, I think is both. So the so I actually just found this scripture in Deuteronomy. So it's Deuteronomy 24:19. And it says, so this is the Lord instructing Israel, "when thou cuttest down, Thine harvest in the field, and has forgotten as sheep in the field, Thou shalt not go again to fetch it, it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee and all the work of thine hands." So it's, yeah, so like, this is both like, they could set aside a corner of their field for this purpose of people that, you know, are, are coming in need it. But they also are saying, don't clean up after yourselves. We have people that are coming to clean up and what they clean up, they're allowed to keep.

Bonnie Randall  8:01 

Okay, so that's really interesting, because we need to know it, because later in, I don't know where exactly it is. I've lost my place in the scriptures. But later, Boaz sees this woman, this random, beautiful woman when he comes home from his business trip or whatever he's doing in Bethlehem, right? And he like, why is this chick doing? Like, who is she? She's beautiful. And, hey, he tells us workers, you know, leave her a little bit more, you know that was funny, I mean, kind of cute. Like all he's flirting a little bit here.  I don't know if you've ever watched any of the movies of Ruth, but the way they interpret some of that is just kind of funny. Like, I have young kids so I watch the cartoon versions. And even my kids noticed how kind he was to Ruth and they asked, like, why would he do that? So I'd like to ask that question. Why do you think Boaz would, would open his his heart to this stranger?

Heather B. Moore  9:12 

Well, I think I mean, this is just maybe an opinion. But I think by the time he got to the field that maybe he had already heard about her. I'm trying to see if there's a place where it said specifically.

Bonnie Randall  9:27 

It does say that he had known. He tells her because she asks, Why are you letting me do this? Right. And I think you're right that he says, I've heard of the kindness that you've shown your mother in law, where is that?

Heather B. Moore  9:39 

So small town, right. Everybody knows everything--everyone's business. It's so so he so he, he already knows her plight as far as she's from Moab. She's, she's basically given up her family, her religion, and she's taking care of .. She's doing this To take care of herself, also Naomi. This is her primary purpose of even being in Bethlehem. And so he's already impressed that she is sacrificing and serving her mother in law and and this of course, means that she is an extended kinsmen. So she's family.

Heather B. Moore  10:18 

And so I think he just all those kind of come together where he's like, Yeah, I can help you out. You're young, I can see you can be a hard worker anyway. It's not like you're you're sitting on the side of the road begging, you're you're working, you're willing to put in the time and the effort. And you're not only doing it just for your own sustenance, as you're helping my kins-woman, Naomi, so I think, yeah, like kind of what you said. There's a combination there.

Bonnie Randall  10:45 

I really like verse 12, where it says he, he's talking, Boaz is talking to Ruth. So backing up in verse 11, he says, Okay, so in verse 10, she asked, Why have I found grace and thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of Me and see a scene that I'm a stranger? And in 11 he says, "it has fully been shewn to me that thou has done unto thy mother in law, since the death of thine husband, and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, the land of thy nativity. That thou art come into the people which thou knowest not heretofor." And then I love verse 12, he says, "The Lord recompense the work and a full reward be given the, of the Lord of God of Israel, under whose wings that art come to trust." That's beautiful poetry, "in whose wings thou art come to trust." And doesn't make you think of the Scripture. As a hen gathereth her chicks. It makes me think of that, like, you know, this is the safety of Israel, the safety of we'll, we'll take you in as our own, and we'll, we'll help you.

Bonnie Randall  11:59 

And for me, this story, when I was studying it, trying to figure out, you know, the deeper meaning, the scriptures of redemption really, really stood out. And then I listened to a podcast of a pretty popular Christian preacher, he's also quoted, or they use this stuff a lot on the YouVersion app. I don't know if you guys know what that is. But it's the Bible app that's pretty popular. Anyway, he helped me understand that this story is more than just about a really nice kinsmen, who is letting his you know, family member. It's more than just redeeming this one family. It's about redeeming all of Israel.

Bonnie Randall  12:54 

And that's an allegory of being redeemed, all of us being redeemed of the Savior. And I have to be honest, I had never looked at the story that way before. And my whole mind was blown. So I went back and reread this story again with those eyes, and I found myself just weeping and feeling like, oh, my gosh, there are so many times I can relate to Ruth now, or I have been a beggar gleaning and asking for help, or riding the coattails of someone else's faith, because I didn't have enough in that moment. Right. Like, it just made me really feel so much, such a deeper connection to her and feel so grateful that this metaphor, allegory. Which is the right word?

Tamara Anderson  13:51 

We understand what you're saying.

Bonnie Randall  13:54 

Would be in here that I could I could see that, that there is that deeper meaning of, of redemption. So what is a kinsmen? And how does that relate to to redemption and redemption of Israel and redeeming all of us?

Tamara Anderson  14:16 

I'm gonna just gonna pop in there and say, I love what you've shared so far, Bonnie, and what you've shared, Heather. I think the kinsmen part is is being family--is being whether you're part of the family like Boaz was to Naomi through her husband. So Boaz was actually, kinsmen or family to Naomi's husband Elimelech. And that's important for us to note for further reference down in the story. But what's interesting is because these women were without protection, a man to protect them or provide for them. I love that Boaz when he initially approaches is Ruth he tells her in verse eight "Hearest thou not my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, Neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens." So come stay here in this field for the whole harvest, you're welcome here. So he's almost saying, Hey, you are family to me. Stay here with my people.

Tamara Anderson  15:22 

And then in verse I, verse nine, he says, you know, I'm charging my men not to touch you. So he's saying, I'm offering my protection to you as family. And you can drink with us, go get get a drink, when you're thirsty, you can eat with us get some food when you're hungry. So he's offering her not only the opportunity to glean but he's kind of bringing her under that mantle of family, extended family, even though she is a stranger. And I think, I think that is very symbolic of, of what God expects us to do, as people are adopted into our fold into our congregations wherever we are in the world, to be that kind of a person who notices when someone new shows up and greets them and is kind to them. That's what Jesus wants us to do. He wants us to act like-- these are my brothers. These are my sisters in Christ, right? And to treat them with kindness. Heather, any other thoughts on that?

Heather B. Moore  16:36 

Yeah, I just love just what Bonnie said is the allegory that we see in these verses, like, even just just looking at through the last couple of days, like it's brought more meaning like, I feel like you could read the story multiple times and focus on something else. But I love what you you said is just it's he's offering not only her sustenance, but protection, and, and also blessings.

Heather B. Moore  17:05 

You know, when we, when we mentioned "under whose arm thou art come to trust." And so it just it It's just a beautiful allegory. I did want to bring up that I thought it was really interesting when it was actually I think it was to remember, it was Dr. Kerry Muhlestein I think is where I read this. When he talks to her in verse 14 and says, "At mealtime come down at mealtime and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vinegar." And, and then it says, "and she sat beside the Reapers, and he reached her parched corn that she did eat and was sufficed and left." So this kind of also has extra meaning because parched corn is means that the grain is harvested just before it's ripe. And then they they roast it, which produces kind of a carmelized texture, which is of course tastes better, but it also provides more energy. So this is actually a more expensive way, because you're because you're kind of harvesting a little bit early. And so and this is something that Boaz would give his workers at midday, and so now he's giving it to Ruth as well. Which means that she is kind of receiving an extra physical boost there.

Bonnie Randall  18:38 

This is really important, because again, back to the the redemption thing, like when I was studying what kinsmen was it also like it falls under the protection, right? Like you were saying? My gosh, Tamara, but it's early. Wow. But it also means that they can I think we didn't we mentioned this last time that they can redeem their house? Like he can purchase their property and take them under his wing and give them that protection and stuff like it had that again, that redemption meaning where he can there's, I think, Heather, you can, both of you are way more knowledgeable in this than I am. But there's something about them being able to marry the widow and they can then have children and redeem the house so that that household name can continue and the inheritance can continue and things like that. Can you explain that? That further for a second? Because I don't fully understand how that works.

Tamara Anderson  19:51 

Go ahead, Heather.

Heather B. Moore  19:53 

Yeah, um, yeah, so basically, it's so there should There's a tradition And, of course in Israelite law is, and it's actually found I had I was just looking at my notes I'd written it down, is found in Genesis 38. And Deuteronomy 25, verses five through 10. And it talks and it says that, according to the love, Levirat law. I'm probably saying that wrong. It stipulates that a man should not die childless, or he will lose his posterity. And you know, his will not, sorry, he will lose his inheritance for his posterity. And so. So the reason that and this is kind of roundabout way, but the reason that a barren widow, marries her brother in law, is to give, is to have an heir for her deceased husband, who will then inherit the first husband husband's piece of property in the family. So then Boaz or another kinsmen, can take over that property, and that property will then stay in the family. Otherwise, they lose that property, and then the widow, has, has no inheritance has no one to take care of her.

Heather B. Moore  21:08 

But if she does remarry, and and keeps his property in this family. And so it's more beneficial for obviously Boaz or another kinsmen to do this, because it then just adds to his own property too, even though it gets portioned out to the next child. And maybe if he already had has children or was already married, it would probably, that property will stay with that, that new line, that new lineage that's being started.

Bonnie Randall  21:40 

Thank you for explaining that.

Tamara Anderson  21:42 

So the cool thing is, is that at the end of this day of gleaning and hanging out in Boaz's fields, and being invited to come back, Ruth goes home and shows Naomi that she's got this ephah of barley, which I kind of looked it up, and it's somewhere around 38 pounds. So it was substantial. She did a good job. And I think it's because Boaz was so kind and saying, leave her a little extra, and she was able to get it.

Tamara Anderson  22:13 

And so at the end of chapter two, Ruth has this conversation with her mother in law, Naomi, and she's like, where did you go that you got so much? Do you know what I mean?

Bonnie Randall  22:25 

Yeah,

Tamara Anderson  22:25 

yeah. And, and then she says, I gleaned today and Boaz fields, basically. And this is what Naomi says in verse 20. She says, "And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, blessed be He of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, the is near of kin, and is one of our next kinsmen." And so this is where that Levirate law or whatever you said it was, Heather, comes into play. So it's like something clicks in Naomi's mind. And she's like, Oh, Oh I forgot about that. Do you know what I mean?

Heather B. Moore  23:07 

It's the Matchmaking verse

Tamara Anderson  23:09 

The matchmaking mother in law right here. But this, this, this comes into play, especially in the upcoming chapters. So all of a sudden Naomi's thinking along these lines, that. And so she says, You go and you harvest with Boaz's his maidens like he instructed you to every day, find them in the field, stay there, you'll be protected you'll be provided for. And, and that's where she stayed through the end of the harvest. So that kind of brings us to the end of chapter two.

Tamara Anderson  23:43 

Any thoughts before we close ladies either on what I finished off there on the end, or I'd also love to hear some takeaways from today's segment that you think apply to us today.

Heather B. Moore  23:58 

I just love what you brought up. So in verse 16, where it talks about well, it's when Boaz in instructing his young men, the other workers to let fall also some of the handfuls on purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her not so. So it's, it's a little bit of an exception he's making, but it's interesting. So she does bring home a lot of extra and that's why Naomi is really surprised. But, but I also feel like that that kind of is a comparison of, of how we can be generous in our service and maybe not show up right as it starts and leave, you know, right at the end, you know, right as right as the time you know, the clock hits that time. But just being open hearted and and your service is what someone needs and not necessarily what you have allotted because maybe Boaz has, you know, has people comingand gleaning and he the other maidens and he kind of has like, kind of just an idea of Oh, yeah, you know, I lose, you know, 5% of my harvest to this to this work, but it's part of our laws, its part of our law of giving and service. And but with Ruth, he's kind of adding more and not being stingy, I guess, and being generous.

Tamara Anderson  25:24 

Go ahead Bonnie.

Bonnie Randall  25:26 

That's just beautiful. The, I did some research on what an ephah if I meant, like you and I saw that it was enough wheat or whatever, it was enough grain for two weeks, for one person for two weeks, which is a lot! Like, you would think that probably when you glean you would only get a couple of days is kind of what I was reading as the most people when they when they would get maybe a day or so. So they had to go out and glean a lot. And he or she was gathering a ton.

Bonnie Randall  26:00 

And that again, brings me back to what our Savior has done for us. Right? He gives us extra when we come to him with a willing heart and just this like little grain of faith. Right, he will magnify our efforts, and he will magnify our whole life and give us so much more than what we think is our do or what we expect or whatever. And it's just such a beautiful example of again, that redemption that love that He has for us and I loved the parallel there Heather of that's an example of what we should then go and do for other people. And how, as the whole point of the Bible study, right is, is how do we become like him and become more his disciples. And that's a perfect example of how to be a disciple of Christ is we're giving generously of our abundance.

Bonnie Randall  27:05 

There have been times when are my tithing because we weren't, I wasn't making income. My tithing. I remember real quickly, I know, we have to end, But real quickly, a personal story.

Bonnie Randall  27:19 

There was a time when I wasn't working. And so I felt weird that I wasn't paying tithing. And I prayed. And I said, What can I do to give back to all the year of blessing us? And I felt the Spirit say, "give of your time. You can't give me give money, just give of your time." And so I tried to spend a little bit of time each week doing some sort of service.

Bonnie Randall  27:47 

And that year, we had both my husband and I had quit our jobs to start this new business. And that's why I wasn't working. And that year, we didn't have to dip into our savings. We made enough money in the new business to pay all of our bills. And we didn't realize it until later when we went to go do our taxes, that we had more money in the bank. And we both looked at each other, like, how did that happen? And then the Spirit reminded me of that That promise that he made me that I will accept this form of tithing, and I will still bless you.

Bonnie Randall  28:32 

 And so for anyone listening out there who's wondering, how can I give back to the Savior? How can I, you know, magnify my calling? How can I make this work? Like think outside the box and ask him if you go to Him in prayer and in supplication and ask how can I serve? Then he'll tell you he wants you to serve his fellow man, right? We are his hands and he will give you the ways and you will be richly blessed in abundance like Ruth was.

Tamara Anderson  29:04 

Yeah. And I think that leads right into my takeaway, which is often when we're feeling down and discouraged and have gone through something hard, like both Ruth and Naomi have, we feel like perhaps  we're wondering, Where are the windows of heaven that are supposed to open, right? I've gone through this hard time, where are they? Where my answers? And God sends people to us. That act is His hands. And what a blessing that is to know that others out there who are listening to God and maybe going to him and praying before they go to church and saying who can I help, who can I serve today? And you are the answer to their prayers. You know? Those You are listening and watching and serving.

Tamara Anderson  30:04 

And I think it's also an admonition to those of us who may be growing complacent at church and feeling like Well, I'm not getting much out of church, to go with maybe a new vision in our mind to seek out those who are struggling, and to pray that we can be God's hands on the earth, to minister to them, to follow the impressions that that we get to go to someone's house. I know there's been times when I've had impressions go to so and so's house today. And I've shown up on their doorstep and said, Hi, I don't know why I'm here, but I suppose to come see you today. And it's somebody that you know, I know from church, but I don't know them super well. And they've invited me in. And what's interesting is because of things like that, just following a little promptings, that God has blessed my life and their life, and we've become friends, you know. So it's pretty neat how all that works.

Tamara Anderson  30:57 

So, I think it we'll wrap up this root story of Ruth chapter two and join us next week as we see how more things fall into place for the redemption of Ruth and Naomi.

Tamara Anderson  31:11 

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