Grace That Sustains

caroline borishade
Oct 22
2 min read

There’s a kind of grace that doesn’t rescue you from hardship but walks with you through it.

It’s the grace that sustained Ruth, a widow, a foreigner, a woman with no guarantees except a quiet faith that refused to die.

When everything familiar is gone

Ruth’s story begins with loss.

A husband is buried. A homeland left behind. A mother-in-law consumed with grief.

Nothing about her life looked promising, yet in that emptiness, grace whispered, “Go on.”

That’s the first mark of sustaining grace: it gives you the courage to take one more step when everything around you says stop.

Many of us have stood there, staring at what’s gone, unsure what’s next. But like Ruth, we learn that obedience in the dark leads to divine appointments in the light.

Loyalty that leads to legacy

“Where you go, I will go… your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”

Ruth 1:16

Those words weren’t just about Naomi; they were Ruth’s declaration of faith in a God she’d only begun to know.

Grace sustained her through gleaning in foreign fields, through loneliness and long days, until favour found her in Boaz’s eyes.

It wasn’t a coincidence; it was covenant grace in motion.

Sustaining grace doesn’t always look supernatural. Sometimes it seems like showing up, working quietly, believing that God hasn’t forgotten your name.

From gleaning to redemption

Ruth didn’t chase destiny; she stayed faithful, and destiny found her.

When you keep walking in obedience, grace always meets you at the next step.

Prayer

Father Lord, thank you for the grace that sustains us.

The grace that doesn’t promise ease but promises Your presence.

Teach me to glean faithfully in the field You’ve given me.

And when the harvest comes, remind me that it was Your hand all along.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Grace is not the absence of struggle; it’s the presence of God in the middle of it.

Like Ruth, you may not see the full story yet, but if grace is guiding your steps, redemption is already on the horizon.

Written by: Caroline