Topic: PATIENCE AND DETERMINATION: KEY VIRTUES
Text:Ruth 1:14-22
1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
1:15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
1:16 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.
1:17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also,If anything but death parts you and me.”
1:18 When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.
1:19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
1:20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
1:21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and [e]the Almighty has afflicted me?”
1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
STUDY:
Initially, Orpah and Ruth had chosen to go with Naomi to her place. But Naomi discouraged them because age had caught up with her, so Orpah left. Ruth on the other hand, determined to stick to Naomi. Despite the negative experiences she witnessed around Naomi, she decided to set aside the bad memories of death and look forward to a better future in Naomi’s return to Bethlehem-Judah. What a rare faith! Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Naomi, through her woes, must have communicated God’s covenant to her daughters-in-law. and probably.
This is is where the faith of Ruth in God grew from. Ruth may have reasoned that the same God who had allowed such calamity to come upon their household because of impatience and fathlessness. could turnit around, hence her responses: ” your God will be my God”(v.16).”.. may the Lord do this to me, and evert mere. if arrything but death seperates you and me”(v.17) Ruth was determined: she would prefer to go on the journey of faith with God patiently, though the future looked uinclear. We must learn from her decision. God is a rewarder of all who diligently seek him.
Prayer:
Lord, please keep me going until you bring me into your promises. Help me make the right choices and wait on you Amen!
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