Do You Know What You Might Be Forfeiting?
on December 23rd, 2021
Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. . . . But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. . . . Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. . . . Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from Moab, ... Read More
A Noble Character Is Of Great Value
on December 22nd, 2021
One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for. Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don't let him know you are there until he has... Read More
Ruth -- A Woman Who Listened.
on December 21st, 2021
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, 2021
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
"The Almighty Has Made My Life Very Bitter"
on December 18th, 2021
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, 2021
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