I'm grateful to Dale Davis for pointing out how the narrative of the book of Ruth goes back to Naomi's welfare again and again. In chapter 3.17, after the famous encounter at the threshing floor, Boaz makes sure to give Ruth a massive amount of barley for...Naomi. At the end of chapter 4, the women of Bethlehem rejoice because a son has been born, not to Ruth, but to Naomi.
Despite appearances, God could not keep his eyes off of Naomi and her welfare. She is provided for again and again. As Mr. Davis points out, the lesson for us is that whatever circumstances in which we find ourselves we just do not have enou information to despair, somehow God is working out his good and wise plan.
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