For Reading and Meditation:      Ruth 2:2-3Ruth has no difficulty in finding a task to gainfully occupy her for, as we read in Ruth 1:22, they arrived in Bethlehem "as the barley harvest was beginning." At harvest time there was always work to be found in the fields, even if it was only gathering up after the reapers. When the workers went through the fields reaping the harvest, often, because of the speed at which they worked, they would leave behind small unreaped sections. These unreaped areas were then covered by "gleaners," who would walk behind and reap the grain that was still standing. Jewish law stated that the gleanings must be left for the poor, and the grain collected by the gleaners became theirs (Leviticus 19:9-10; Deuteronomy 24:19). During the harvest, all the fields were open to be gleaned. No employment agency. No special selection system. No union cards. Those who had the need and desire to glean simply went and worked wherever the inclination took them. As Ruth takes up the role of gleaner, she happens to find herself reaping in one of the fields which belonged to Boaz. The term used in the second half of our text for today, "as it turned out," is filled with deep spiritual meaning. Divine guidance was at work here. Ruth might not have realized it or sensed it, for most divine guidance takes place when we are not conscious of it.Father, forgive me for the times I have thought things have happened to me because of luck, when really it has been the Lord. How glad I am that I am being guided not by the stars but by the Savior. I am truly thankful. Amen.

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters." (v. 3) 

19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Deuteronomy 24:19

 19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.   Leave it for the foreigner,   the fatherless and the widow,   so that the Lord your God may bless   you in all the work of your hands.

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 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.  Leave it for the foreigner,  the fatherless and the widow,  so that the Lord your God may bless  you in all the work of your hands.

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.   Leave it for the foreigner,   the fatherless and the widow,   so that the Lord your God may bless   you in all the work of your hands.

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Deuteronomy 24:19 NIV

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