Ruth -- A Woman Who Listened.
on December 21st, 2022
Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? . . . Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said."The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man ... Read More
We Reap What We Sow
on December 20th, 2022
She asked him, "Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me -- a foreigner?"Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband -- how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the ... Read More
Why Have I Found Such Favor?
on December 19th, 2022
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was workin... Read More
"The Almighty Has Made My Life Very Bitter"
on December 18th, 2022
So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "can this be Naomi?" "Don't call me Naomi," she told them, "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter, I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty ha... Read More
Amazing Kindness, Commitment, And Loyalty
on December 17th, 2022
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of His people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home . . . back to the land of Judah. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show you kindness . . ." Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud and said to her, "We will go back ... Read More
Don't Cut and Run Because of Challenges
on December 16th, 2022
In the days when the judges ruled, there was famine in the land. So, a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. The man's name was Elimelek, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.Now Elimelek, Naomi's... Read More