Text: Ruth 2 (Selected verses)
You don’t just what you , but you tend to what you .
Ruth 2:10 NIV
At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”
4 Signs You Might Have a Keeper
1. Seeking C-
Ruth 2:11 NIV
Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.”
You don’t build a life of righteousness on a of .
When a person shows you who they really are, .
2. Exploring C-
Ruth 2:14 NIV
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.
3. Showing C-
Ruth 2:17 NIV
As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves and don’t reprimand her. 16Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”
Ruth 2:17 NIV
So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.
4. Receiving C-
Ruth 2:19 NIV
Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” …
It’s always a good sign when those who love you the most who you .
Ruth 2:20 NIV
“… he is one of our –.”