he book of Ruth opens with three funerals but closes with a wedding. There is a good deal of weeping recorded in the first chapter, but the last chapter records an overflowing of joy in the little town of Bethlehem. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Ps. 30:5 KJV). Not all of life’s stories have this kind of happy ending, but this little book reminds us that, for the Christian, God still writes the last chapter. We don’t have to be afraid of the future.
