Good morning Friends...
Today we start Ruth, and after the craziness of Judges, this book feels like a breath of fresh air.
But Ruth doesn’t begin with romance or redemption. It starts with famine, funerals, grief, and bitterness.
Naomi loses her husband and sons. Everything falls apart. But in the middle of that pain, Ruth makes one of the most Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
Ruth chose faithfulness even without knowing the outcome. And what Naomi couldn’t see yet was that God was already writing redemption into their story.
What’s beautiful is that Ruth starts in emptiness but ends in legacy.
This little foreign widow who chose faithfulness becomes part of the bloodline of King David and eventually Jesus Himself.
That means while Naomi thought God had abandoned her Heaven was quietly positioning generations.
And isn’t that just like God...
We think He’s absent because we can only see the funeral, the famine, the loss, the bitterness, and the unanswered prayers.
But God is already working on Chapter 4 while we’re still crying through Chapter 1.
God still works even in bitter seasons. ❤️
Add comment
Comments