Her Mother-In-Law Saw What She Had Gleaned

A spiritual person judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one. 1 Cor. 2:15. Naomi, who was Ruth’s spiritual guide, saw right away what Ruth had gleaned. She could say with John, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” 3 John 4. If you have begotten children in Christ, you will experience great joy when the children come home with something they have gleaned on their own. The Spirit that binds the fathers’ hearts to the children and the children’s hearts to the fathers is from God. However, just as in the natural, there are children who are disobedient to their parents, so there are also many spiritual children who believe they are adults during their teenage years. They think they are adults and can manage things by themselves, but the fact of the matter is that you will never be an adult, or independent, in a spirit that strives against the fathers. On the other hand you will—in a relationship such as ruled between Ruth and Naomi—advance very far in Christ who came to gather us into one in Himself. May the mind of Christ rule in our hearts so that both the inward as well as the outward things come into order.