“(She) gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech” (Ruth 2:3)

It wasn’t by chance that Ruth came to this field. God ordained before the foundation of the world that Ruth would meet and marry Boaz, and they would be the grandparents of King David.

David would write of this in one of his Psalms: “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them” (Psalms 139:16).

But what’s even more amazing, is, this is true of every saint! “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1:4–5).

There’s no place for “chance” in the Christian faith. Saints see the hand of God in everything. The trivial events of to-day or to-morrow may involve consequences of the highest importance, but they are all in the hands of God. He knows what you’re going to do before you do it, and has already been where you are going. This is possible because God lives outside of time and space.

Every saint can share with David the wonderful revelation of being intimately known and loved by God: “You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether .. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it” (Psalm 139:2–6).

Dear saint, I pray God will give you “the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened” (Ephesians 1:17–18).

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