There was a time when Ruth's life didn't look very promising -- she was a widow who left everything she knew to follow her mother-in-law to a strange land with a strange new God. There, she found herself gleaning in the fields, wondering what would become of her...
And now Ruth is David's great-grandmother, if I'm doing the math right. A foreigner, in a foreign land, who is in the lineage of the greatest king of Israel. Not what she would have expected, but God could see farther than she could.
The same is true for each of us. God can see farther than we can. There are times when our life doesn't look very promising, when we are filled with despair and disappointment. There are times when we feel like there is no hope. The joy of Easter, the Good News of the Gospel, is that even when we stare into the maw of death, when we feel defeated, there is yet life in God, there is yet joy in God, there is hope for tomorrow and hope for eternity. You are loved, and nothing can take that from you, and because of the love with which you are loved, you are assured of eternal life in the arms of God.
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