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Paul alerts us to a clear and present danger this morning. Sin will rot and corrode Jesus’s Body, the Church. Sin is like mold growing behind a fresh coat of pain. It’s like a deadly rip current just under the water line. It’s like a serious cancer spreading invisibly in the body. Sin is a clear and present danger for the Church. But that’s not all Paul wants to say. There’s a solution to the clear and present danger of sin. The Body, walking together as God’s children, in the Father’s Love and Light. We can forsake the danger of sin together.

In all the obstacles and pain points of life in a sin-infested world, God has not left us without a redeemer. Rejoice, our redeemer has come. Rejoice, our redeemer will come again!

While everyone else in Israel did what was right in the own eyes, Boaz and Ruth obeyed the LORD. Their righteousness creates a refuge where their neighbors can taste the goodness of God. Life in a world polluted by sin and darkness is filled to the brim with struggles with suffering and sin. How do we respond to God and the world when the temptation is to do what’s right in our own eyes? Obey God’s way, behold God’s work.

In chapter 2, Ruth and Naomi begin to see God’s faithful, yet mysterious, plans working themselves out. We are urged to depend upon God’s sometimes mysterious but always faithful provision. This is an invitation to walk with God through difficulty. To depend upon Him. And to look for his provision.