Question: What kind of man was Boaz before he married?

Answer: Ruthless.

A college man walked into a photography studio with a framed picture of his girlfriend. He wanted the picture duplicated. This involved removing it from the frame. In doing this, the studio owner noticed the inscription on the back of the photograph:

“My dearest Tom, I love you with all my heart. I love you more and more each day. I will love you forever and ever. I am yours for all eternity.”

It was signed “Helen,” and it contained a P.S.: “If we ever break up, I want this picture back.”

Helen was obviously not completely committed to that relationship.

Ruth was a young woman who understood total commitment. God also loves commitment. That’s why He included Ruth’s statement to her mother-in-law in your Bible:

“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”

That’s the kind of commitment God admires - unqualified commitment.

Strite, Jeff. Sermon: Total Commitment
August 2004. Sermon Central

Comment: God doesn’t just ‘admire’ such commitment, that is the commitment that he has toward us; that inspires us to show such commitment in our own relationships.

Question: Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?

Answer: Noah, because he was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.

Question: Why didn’t they play cards on the Ark?

Answer: Because Noah was standing on the deck.

…[T]he head of Europe’s lunar missions said a DNA library might belong on the Moon. “It would act as a mini Noah’s Ark for repopulating the Earth after a catastrophe,” explained Bernard Foing, chief scientist with the European Space Agency.

The Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) advocates a “lunar sanctuary” to preserve Earth’s whole record in case the planet is destroyed.

…Another complication is the fact that a species needs a certain amount of genetic diversity to be viable. “You can’t have just one or two DNA samples, but you need hundreds,” Holt (from the Zoological Society of London, who sits on the Frozen Ark steering committee.) said. Biologists debate over the exact numbers, but Holt thinks 50 females and 50 males is a bare minimum to fill in the gene pool.

Schirber, Michael. Noah’s Cosmic Ark: Preserving DNA on the Moon
September 13, 2004. Space.com – Science

Comment: The moon isn't going to be any safer than the earth, when the earth finally sees its end on the Day of Judgment. But that doesn't mean there is no hope. Christ's angels will sweep up those who trust in him. Who needs an ark? God doesn't need a DNA supply to start everything anew. He'll restore us through the resurrection.

Of course, if you're not willing to trust that, shoot for the moon.