Ruth 4:9-10

Ruth 4:9-10 9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from the town records. Today you are witnesses!"

The end of Ruth seems to just rush to many different conclusions. Yet for some reason this verse struck me. In the midst of Gods plans for salvation, the Davidic line which eventually leads to Christ, God acts in the work of a normal towns business. While I can acknowledge that this was a unique marriage in the community this appears to me to be another instance of God working in the midst of the “world.” In our daily lives most of us live in the secular far more than the sacred, a verse like this reminds us that the sacred (unlike the secular) is present in all things everywhere. We just have to take the time to look. It might be a birds flight across the sky, a sunrise, or sunset. It could be that grocery store attendant that you never met before, or the homeless person you pass on the street. The sacred is everywhere and God has given us the ability to see it. Will you look?