Esther and Ruth (Reformed Expository Commentary)

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Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruths attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esthers bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Namoi to have abandoned the Promised Land and Gods people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the culture and values of Persian society.

In Esther, God works in invisible ways to save his people. In Ruth, Gods grace comes to Naomi unexpectedly, and with it, a depiction of redemption for her people. In both books, a gracious and sovereign God works through flawed individualsunable even to help themselvesto rescue his people and prepare for the coming of Christ.