The Challenge of Reading the Book of Ruth

The hardest thing for us reading the book of ruth is, we read it wrong. She would be shocked most of all to know that there would be a bible book bearing her name,. Wasn't even her god when her story started. Her background and ancestry suggested nothing that she would be part of the lineage of our saviour, jesus christ. So we read the book of Ruth through the lins of our knowledge, but she had to live the book of ruthless through the pain of her present ation.