• In the last five decades, marriage rates in the US have dropped by nearly 60% 

• 63% of men under 30 are choosing to not be married.

• 77% of millennials prefer to live with their partner before marriage

Ruth 1:16 NIV

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

Ruth 2:1 NIV

Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.

Ruth 2:2-3 NIV

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.”

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.

Ruth 2:3 ICB

So Ruth went to the fields. She followed the workers who were cutting the grain. And she gathered the grain that they had left. It just so happened that the field belonged to Boaz. He was a close relative from Elimelech’s family.

Romans 8:28 NLT 

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Ruth 2:4 NLT

While she was there, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters. “The LORD be with you!” he said.

“The LORD bless you!” the harvesters replied.

Ruth 2:5-7 NLT

Then Boaz asked his foreman, “Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?”

And the foreman replied, “She is the young woman from Moab who came back with Naomi. She asked me this morning if she could gather grain behind the harvesters. She has been hard at work ever since.”

• She’s faithful to God.  

• She’s loyal to her family. 

• She’s a hard worker. 

• She honors God morally. 

Ruth 2:8-9 NLT 

Boaz went over and said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don’t go to any other fields. Stay right behind the young women working in my field. See which part of the field they are harvesting, and then follow them. I have warned the young men not to treat you roughly. And when you are thirsty, help yourself to the water they have drawn from the well.”

Ruth 2:12 NIV

May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.

• He Honors Her

• He Protects Her

• He Provides For Her

• He Prays For Her

Ruth 2:14 NIV

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.”

When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.

Ephesians 3:20 NLT

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.