Ruth: More Than a Love Story
“...where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”
If we have any acquaintance with the book of Ruth, it is likely because we have heard Ruth 1:16-17 read at a wedding. Even though this passage rings in our ears as romantic and poetic, the context of the passage has nothing to do with weddings or marriage at all! Perhaps if we read a bit more of the book we will come to think of it as a primarily romantic love story between the destitute widow Ruth and the shining knight Boaz. But I invite you to go on a journey with me to find out that Ruth is much more than that. It is a love story between God and humanity where He proves His kind providence and matchless sovereignty.
