The Gospel, when properly understood, should make you weep and make you rejoice. We will thrive as we accurately apply the Gospel to our world and lives.
Often it feels like God isn't speaking to us. Often it isn't that He is not speaking, but that we have put our own restrictions on what we are willing to hear.
Even in a time in Israel when everyone was doing their own thing, the book of Ruth shows us that some stayed faithful to God and points us to the ultimate kinsman redeemer, Jesus.