Kindness

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" And Naomi said to her, "This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives." – Ruth 2.20

I like to see the kind of change that takes place in situations like Naomi went through. She was in utter despair and misery when she got back to Bethlehem. The full impact of what Ruth had done had not sunk in.

But then things began to fall into place. Boaz had taken them under his protection. They were being provided for.

But Naomi knew the source of the their success.

‘Blessed be the Lord, who has nor forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead.’

I love it when God is referred to as kind. Kind is such a nice word.

God is love. God is good. God is holy. God is just. God is righteous. God is all knowing. God is all seeing. God is everywhere. God is eternal. God is unchanging.

But isn’t it nice to know that God is kind?