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Restoration Sermon | Ordinary Faithfulness | Everyday Saints
Have you ever felt invisible? Like your hard work, your sacrifices, your faithful efforts went completely unnoticed? This powerful exploration of the Book of Ruth invites us into a story that flips our recognition-obsessed culture on its head. Ruth, a Moabite widow, made a life-altering commitment on an unnamed roadside with no audience, no social media post, no applause. She chose faithfulness to her mother-in-law Naomi in the face of complete uncertainty, walking into a foreign land with no guarantees, no security, and no promise of a better life. Her faithfulness looked mundane—literally picking up leftover grain behind harvesters, day after day, in backbreaking labor that no one celebrated. Yet God was weaving something extraordinary through her ordinary obedience. Her quiet acts of devotion eventually caught the attention of Boaz, leading to a marriage that would produce a lineage culminating in King David and ultimately Jesus Christ himself. The redemptive story of all humanity has threads running back through this woman's simple, faithful service. We're challenged to recommit to the small stuff—the prayers no one hears, the parenting no one applauds, the generosity no one notices, the daily showing up when the lights are off. Because faithfulness is the soil where resurrection power grows best, and God doesn't need our influence nearly as much as He desires our everyday obedience.
