“Her advice is the total opposite of what she commanded just one day ago! Yesterday it was, “Get moving. Put on your best clothes. Cover yourself in myrrh.” A flurry of desperate spasms. Confront our problem head on! Plunge into the dark and make it happen.
Now? “Wait.” The term means, “sit still,” or, “abide.” Ruth just needed to wait for her redeemer to do his work and all would be made right. Wait for Him to do what needs doing and then to call you to His side. Wait for the moment when he clears the way and then says, “Now come and join me.”
You see, it was the redeemer who would resolve things. That term resolve means to complete or finish something. It can refer to a toll or a tribute that must be paid. Our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, finished the work. He cried out on the cross, “It is finished.” He paid the price. We can do nothing to buy ourselves out of sin and death. He alone could and He did because of His love for us.
And now, like Ruth, we are invited to wait on Him. To abide in Him. To exercise a restful trust in His promises. Psalm 46 gives us the famous phrase: Be still and know that He is God. An active waiting where we watch, we listen, we follow what the Redeemer is doing in our situation.“
