Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jan 29, 2025, 6:21 PM
Passage Read: Ruth 1-4
Meditation Verse: 4:15
Thought
This story of Ruth and Naomi is a welcome counterpoint to the stereotype of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Naomi must have been a very godly woman to inspire such loyalty among her daughters-in-law.
Jan 24, 2024, 7:53 AM
Passage Read: Ruth 1-4
Meditation Verse: 3:11
Thought
Ruth was a woman of excellence, because she was willing to give up the life she could have had in her own country to return to Israel with Naomi and care for her. She was a woman of excellence because she diligently gleaned in the fields to provide for herself and her mother-in-law. She was a woman of excellence because she was content with their lot, but obedient to her mother-in-law when she sent her to Boaz.