Ruth ⁽⁴⁾

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verse: 4:15 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. Though the one went home, they…

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verse: 3:11 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…

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verses: 1:16-17 This is what it looks like to surrender our life for the good of another. Ruth could have returned to her own people and found a new husband and been taken care of, but she understood the situation…

Passage Read: Ruth 1-4 Meditation Verse: 1:16 Ruth understood that Naomi likely had no one to help her, being more a widow. She was willing to forsake her people and likely any hope of a good future in order to care for her mother-in-law. She…