Fine, I'll make the confession: I don't see what all the fuss is about Ruth. Yes, important because of the lineage link, but faith? You want to explain how hard it is to be in a strange land with nothing except loyalty to an in-law, I'll grant you that. But faith?
By my estimation, she gave up a barren land (since God was against Moab), and maybe she didn't get along with her folks. Is the desire to start a new life unencumbered really faith? Secondly, she worked diligently in the field -- again, granted. But what else was she going to do -- starve? Lastly, she throws herself at Boaz's feet like a hussy (the reason she wanted him to say nothing to others). She's reckoned faith because she used a sinful means to save herself and her inlaw?
Sorry, pass.
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