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Topic: -- Friday, 9/10/10 -- IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE -- Ruth 2:2
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From: "J.R. & Bonnie Ricks" <j-r-and-bonnie@dogwoodministries.org>
Date: Sep 09 05:07PM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/takeaminute/msg/971a6572af4538c7
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IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE -- Ruth 2:2 NIV
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up
the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to
her, "Go ahead, my daughter."
Israelite law stated that when the owner of a field harvested it, he should
not harvest the "edges" or the "corners" (depending on the translation
you're using) and that any grain that was dropped was to be left for the
poor and the widows (Leviticus
<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019:9-10;&version=31
;> 19:9-10 NIV; 23:22
<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2023:22;&version=31;>
NIV; Deuteronomy
<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2024:19;&version=31
;> 24:19 NIV). Ruth knew this and, industrious girl that she was, Ruth
went straight to the fields and began to "glean" (the term used to refer to
the poor picking up the dropped grain) in order to feed Naomi and herself.
This had to be a demeaning thing for Ruth to do. After all, she had been
married and was probably pretty well fixed financially before she lost her
husband. Now her only way to stay alive was to scrounge around in the
fields behind the harvesters and pick up what they dropped. Ruth could have
been too proud to stoop to such a lowly task. She could have just sat down
and joined Naomi in feeling sorry for herself. She could have said to
herself, "Nobody likes me as it is. How will they look at me if they see me
out there with all those poor people? I can't be seen doing something so
low. I'll never be able to look anyone in the eye if I do something like
that!"
In today's economic times, we see two predominate types of reactions in
people who lose their jobs. There's the man who would let his family starve
rather than work at McDonald's for a while. So he does nothing, and loses
everything. And then there's a family I know where the man took a job as a
sacker at the grocery and store, and his wife cleaned houses for about six
months. By the way, he's a chemical engineer by profession, and she was an
advertising executive. Now, they own their own company and are happier than
they had ever been before. The Lord blessed their humility and their
willingness to do whatever was necessary to provide for their family by
giving them a new business - one that they operate and own themselves.
Jesus set the greatest example of all. He owns everything. He is King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. He holds the highest position in the universe and
beyond. He is both Creator and Redeemer. The Beginning and the End. He is
everything. And yet, He placed Himself in the lowliest position possible
when He came to earth. He didn't have to do it, but He did.
The next time you find yourself in a situation that requires you to do
something you might think is "beneath" you in order to achieve a goal,
remember Ruth... and remember Jesus. What are you going to do?
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