My kinda guy #2
Alright. Now that you’ve digested that. Let’s move on. But before we do, I want you to understand that I’m not the type that sits and waits for the right guy so I can start living my life. You know the type that idolises marriage and considers it a life-time achievement. I used to be, before I turned 21. I’m all for independency and growth as an individual now. I mean look at Ruth, she didn’t sit in some old house dreaming of weddings and waiting to be saved like a damsel in distress. No, she got out there and made whatever living she could make. When my Boaz comes along, he’ll find me in the field, making it.
Now for standard number 2. He’ll protect me.
“So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the girls. I have told the men not to touch you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.” Ruth 2:8-9
One might think that Boaz told Ruth to stay in his fields so he could have her all to himself. But you have to understand that the workers of the field sometimes took advantage of the women who gleaned there. Naomi reflects this in verse 22 of the same chapter. So Boaz said this in protection because he had already spoken to his servants not to touch her. The beauty in that. He seeks to do nothing to harm her, even ensuring that the environment she’s in isn't harmful. It’s then that I remember 1 Corinthians 13:7; “Love always protects.”
I fail to understand how we girls allow boys to keep us from things that empower us, be it school, church or whatever. You can’t claim to love me yet expose me to the danger of being uneducated and unemployed in a world so demanding. You can’t be loving me when exposing me to the danger of HIV and pregnancy and the disgrace of losing my virginity outside of marriage. I know keeping your virginity is seen as ‘out of date’ in the times we live in, but I don’t care who says what, nothing means more to a girl than that. Tamar lived the rest of her life miserable and desolate just because that one special gift was stolen from her. So stop lying to yourself by stifling your conscience, it matters who you give this precious gift to because once gone, you can never get it back.
Boaz proved his ability to protect her before they initiated a relationship which made it so much easier for Ruth to trust him with her heart, because she had no doubt it was in good hands, that it was protected.
Now for standard number 2. He’ll protect me.
“So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the girls. I have told the men not to touch you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.” Ruth 2:8-9
One might think that Boaz told Ruth to stay in his fields so he could have her all to himself. But you have to understand that the workers of the field sometimes took advantage of the women who gleaned there. Naomi reflects this in verse 22 of the same chapter. So Boaz said this in protection because he had already spoken to his servants not to touch her. The beauty in that. He seeks to do nothing to harm her, even ensuring that the environment she’s in isn't harmful. It’s then that I remember 1 Corinthians 13:7; “Love always protects.”
I fail to understand how we girls allow boys to keep us from things that empower us, be it school, church or whatever. You can’t claim to love me yet expose me to the danger of being uneducated and unemployed in a world so demanding. You can’t be loving me when exposing me to the danger of HIV and pregnancy and the disgrace of losing my virginity outside of marriage. I know keeping your virginity is seen as ‘out of date’ in the times we live in, but I don’t care who says what, nothing means more to a girl than that. Tamar lived the rest of her life miserable and desolate just because that one special gift was stolen from her. So stop lying to yourself by stifling your conscience, it matters who you give this precious gift to because once gone, you can never get it back.
Boaz proved his ability to protect her before they initiated a relationship which made it so much easier for Ruth to trust him with her heart, because she had no doubt it was in good hands, that it was protected.
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