Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 / Matthew 23:1-12
Everything happens for a reason and with a reason.
That is because when God created the world and every living creature, He had a plan.
Everything was planned and created orderly.
So nothing really happens by chance.
In the 1st reading, Ruth went to glean in the fields after the reapers.
And it chanced that she came to that part of the fields which belonged to Boaz.
But if everything happens for a reason and with a reason, then it was certainly not by chance.
Later Boaz would take Ruth as his wife and they would have a son, Obed, who was the father of David’s father, Jesse.
So God had it all planned, and we humbly accept the mystery of God’s plan.
Yet, God also creates chances for us to be humble and to recognize His signs and wonders.
When we think we know it all and have everything under our control, then pride comes in and we will be blind to God’s revelation.
But when we know that there is only so much that we know and understand, then God will reveal more to us of His ways.
And with humility, we will see the signs and wonders that God will show us.