Reading from Thursday, May 6

Hey sorry. I totally fell asleep last night before I could even open the old laptop. Ever since I started doing this I was so afraid of taking one night off out of fear of losing motivation - but I think the opposite is what caused my little tantrum earlier this week. If I need a break, I should allow myself to take one, otherwise I'll get burnt out. I've done this long enough that its an ingrained habit so I don't fear giving up if I miss a night here or there.

Great, so let's read the Bible.

Reading for May 6
Ruth 2:1-4:22
OK - so remember we have Naomi the widow and Ruth, her widowed daughter in law. Now we're introduced to Naomi's brother-in-law, Boaz. Got it? Now Ruth decides to go to the fields and pick up left over grain from anyone who finds Ruth to be a cool chick. The field she ended up working in happened to belong to Boaz.

Boaz meets her and finds out who she is and gives her great favor as a worker in his field. Apparently the news had traveled of Ruth staying with Naomi after Naomi's whole family died. Boaz says

"I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. ¹² May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."

Ruth and Naomi then workout a plan that I don't quite understand involving a "kinship redeemer" but basically it resulted in Boaz buying all of Alimilech's land from Naomi and taking Ruth as his wife. Ruth and Boaz had a son who had a son, who had another son named David. As in "and Goliath".

John 4:43-54
It's interesting to read John because it seems like it was written after the other three gospels had already been written and published and studied and was already well known. Because lines like this:

⁴⁶Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.

It's just written in such a nonchalant way like "Oh yeah, when Jesus did that wine thing." As if people should already know about it. Pretty cool.

Psalm 105:16-36
This is another "History of God" type psalm, giving an account of the stories of Joseph and Moses. Nothing really stands out to me here.

Proverbs 14:26-27
 ²⁶ He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress,
       and for his children it will be a refuge.
 ²⁷ The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life,
       turning a man from the snares of death.

That's the best reason so far for fearing the LORD. Well done, Solomon.