The moment Naomi looked at the harvest and said, "Who noticed you?"

There’s a moment in the Book of Ruth that I keep coming back to.

Ruth has spent the day working in the fields - gleaning grain from the edges that the harvesters had left behind. It was the law. The minimum. The safety net the poor were entitled to. She comes home that evening and Naomi takes one look at what she’s carrying and asks a remarkable question: “Who noticed you?”

Because she could see in that harvest that someone had gone far beyond what was asked.

That someone was Boaz. And what he did wasn’t dramatic or loud. He didn’t make a speech. He didn’t post about it. He simply gave his workers a quiet private instruction - leave a little extra behind, intentionally, for her. Nobody required it. No law demanded it. He just kept looking for one more way to give.

I think most of us live somewhere between going through the motions and actually giving something of ourselves. We give more when we feel like it. We do the minimum when we’re tired. And we rarely stop to ask which one we’re doing on any given day.

But what if generosity wasn’t a tap you turn on and off depending on how you’re feeling? What if it was a posture - something you carry with you?

That’s what today’s devotional is about. Five minutes, one story, and one tiny holy step you can take today - no schedule overhaul required.

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See you tomorrow.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/what-if-generosity-isnt-about-money?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true