Family Ties
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Scripture teaches that God “is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.” See this truth in action in Ruth’s story. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg points out how an invisible God became visible as Ruth gleaned barley in Boaz’s field.
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| 0:00.0 | In the |
| 0:03.0 | In the book of Ephesians, we're reminded that God is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think. |
| 0:30.7 | And today on Truth for Life, we'll see this truth in action in the Old Testament story of Ruth. |
| 0:36.7 | Alistair Bed walks us through Ruth's experience |
| 0:39.9 | gleaning in Boaz Field. |
| 0:42.3 | And we'll discover how an invisible God makes himself visible. |
| 0:47.4 | We're focusing on Ruth chapter 2, verse 14. |
| 0:55.9 | Things have actually turned out really well for Ruth. |
| 1:00.5 | It's true to say that her circumstances are not the best. |
| 1:05.1 | However, their poverty has not neutralized them, and Ruth has shown herself to be an |
| 1:10.1 | initiative-taking kind of young lady. |
| 1:13.0 | She had told her mother-in-law that she was going to go out and to glean in the fields to pick |
| 1:19.0 | up leftover grain. And there in that 13 verse, she will notice that she'd been touched by both |
| 1:25.6 | the provision and the protection afforded her by |
| 1:28.5 | this individual called Boas. And as this day unfolds, Ruth's spirits must have lifted within her |
| 1:35.4 | as she said to herself, I can't wait to get back and tell Naomi what is being going on today. |
| 1:40.4 | This has been a day to be remembered. Chimmy even have felt that by the time she reached what we have as verse 13, she had completely maxed out. |
| 1:50.4 | Surely it had been a wonderful day. |
| 1:53.0 | There couldn't be very much more that she could enjoy, surely, of the kindness and favor of this individual. |
| 2:00.4 | This was a wonderful thing, this God of Israel, |
| 2:03.0 | under whose wings she had taken refuge, when she had committed herself to God, when she had |
| 2:07.8 | heard of him from Naomi and from others, she had only wondered at the prospect of what it would |
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