When Ruth started gleaning in the fields, picking up the leftovers, I doubt that it felt like the start of something wonderful. I suspect that it was exhausting, backbreaking work, and she likely wondered if she'd made the right decision, wondered if she should have gone back to Moab with Orpah. It would've been easy to second guess herself. She was in a strange land, doing hard work, likely wondering what hope looked like. And yet, in that time, all she could do was keep working.
Faithfulness to God's calling often looks like that. It's showing up, day after day, trusting that God is at work, that there is something secure beneath your feet when you step out in faith. It's easy to look around, to second guess, to wonder if you've made the right decision, and yet God is there, as God promises to be, and God's vision is longer than our own -- and so may we learn how to be patient with God, how to be faithful, even in those seasons that can sometimes feel like drudgery, and may we trust God to hold up God's promises, as God has always done!
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