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July 5 - Ruth 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it is Wednesday.
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  It is the 5th of July and I am so grateful that you have made
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  space in your day for me to join you now.
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  If you have had many conversations with me, you might
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  know that I am a little bit of a pencil nerd.
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  I do just love love pencils. They have the greatest thing.
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  They've been around for well over 450 years.
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  But 201 years ago, on July 5th, the mechanical pencil was born.
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  And this is Mechanical Pencil Day.
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  The old pacer Clickety click? Not quite.
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  A sharpening romantic stick of wood and graphite, but still
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  pretty magical. So if you're a pencil user,
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  particularly a mechanical pencil, today is your kind of
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  day mistakes. Ah, just grab your eraser and
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  erase them. Too easy for that is really
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  beside the point, isn't it? We are.
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  Moving through this story, hearing how Naomi and her
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  daughterinlaw Ruth are finding their way navigating the
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  kindness of this relative of theirs who is showing an
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  interest in Ruth. So let us continue the story as
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  it becomes very interesting in Ruth Chapter 3.
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  One day, Naomi said to Ruth. My daughter, it's time that I
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  found a permanent home for you so that you will be provided
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  for. Boaz is a close relative of
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  ours, and he's been very kind by letting you gather grain with
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  his young women. Tonight he will be winnowing
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  barley at the threshing floor. Now do as I tell you.
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  Take a bath and put on perfume. And dress in your nicest
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  clothes. Then go to the threshing floor.
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  But don't let Boaz see you until he has finished eating and
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  drinking. Be sure to notice where he lies
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  down. Then go and uncover his feet and
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  lie down there. He will tell you what to do.
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  I will do everything as you say, Ruth replied.
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  So she went down to the threshing floor that night and
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  followed the instructions of her motherinlaw.
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  After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good
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  spirits, he lay down at the far end of the pile of grain and
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  went to sleep. Then Ruth came quietly,
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  uncovered his feet, and lay down.
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  Around midnight, Boaz suddenly woke up and turned over.
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  He was surprised to find a woman laying at his feet.
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  Who are you? He asked.
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  I am your servant, Ruth, she replied.
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  Spread the corner of your covering over me for you and my
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  family. Redeemer does Lord bless you, my
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  daughter? Beau has exclaimed.
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  You are showing even more family loyalty now than you did before,
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  for you have not gone after a younger man, whether rich or
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  poor. Now, don't worry about a thing,
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  my daughter. I will do what is necessary.
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  For everyone in town knows you are a virtuous woman.
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  But while it's true that I am one of your family redeemers,
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  there is another man who is more closely related to you than I
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  am. Stay here tonight, and in the
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  morning I will talk to him. If he is willing to redeem you
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  very well, let him marry you. But if he is not, then as surely
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  as the Lord lives, I will redeem you myself.
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  Now lie down here until morning. So, Ruth, lay at boaz's feet
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  until the morning. But she got up before it was
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  light enough for people to recognize each other, for Boaz
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  had said, no. One must know that a woman was
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  here at the threshing floor. Then Boaz said to her, bring
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  your cloak and spread it out. He measured 6 scoops of barley
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  into the cloak and placed it on her back.
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  Then he returned to the town. When Ruth went back to her
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  motherinlaw, Naomi asked what happened.
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  My daughter. Ruth told Naomi everything Boaz
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  had done for her, and she added he gave me these six scoops of
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  barley and said don't go back to your motherinlaw emptyhanded.
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  Then Naomi said to her, Just be patient, my daughter, until we
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  hear what happens. The man won't rest until he has
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  settled things today. Lord, we may not understand
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  these customs of this particular time and place that we read in
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  the story, but we understand loyalty and we understand
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  kindness. Lord, as we go about our lives,
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  I pray that you would continue to shape us, that you would
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  continue to fill us with your spirit, and that the fruits of
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  your spirit would grow in us so that.
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  When we encounter others, we are patient, kind and self
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  controlled and gentle and all the other beautiful fruits that
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  your spirit would develop in us. We just adore you because we
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  know that all these fruits are your characters.
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  You are a good good God, our family Redeemer.
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  Our world's Redeemer. Our universe is Redeemer.
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  And we love you, and we're so grateful for everything you do
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  for us. And it's in your name we pray
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  Jesus. Amen.