Do You Know What You Might Be Forfeiting?
on December 23rd, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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
Why Have I Found Such Favor?
on December 20th, 2020
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 19th, 2020
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 18th, 2020
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