Your Example Still Matters

[458 words] In this wicked age we may be tempted to think that people no longer care or even notice immorality. Even in evil times, however, there is usually enough of a sense of decency in a community for people to recognize a shameful act. The period of the judges was a corrupt and dangerous time in Israel. Ruth lived in those days. When she went to glean in the field of Boaz, he told the young men not to disrespect her in any way (Ruth 2:9, 15). He didn’t want them to take advantage of her. Later he told Ruth that the whole city knew that she was a virtuous woman (Ruth 3:11). How could they have known this if they were so depraved they didn’t know right from wrong? When Ruth came to the threshing floor at night to talk with Boaz, he was concerned that people might…