Day 19
The Book of Ruth
How faithfulness of one person to another highlights the faithfulness of God.
Ruth 1:16
Ruth to Naomi:
"Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God."
In a world where "in-laws" are deemed more like "out-laws" - this book, the relationship of Ruth and Naomi, gives me hope in how things could be, should be, in families!
The book of Ruth shows us faithfulness, sacrifice, and genuine love. Not the fake kind that is so often seen.
It's about Ruth's commitment to Naomi, their commitment to each other, and most importantly how they are both committed to God! Oh if we would all put that as the priority in our families!
Ruth 2:12 says, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband -- how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."
Even after such hardship of both women being widowed....After such a period of unfaithfulness in the country, they remained loyal to each other, and to God. And God rewarded that loyalty. Ruth as she remarried and became a mother. Naomi in becoming a grandmother.
The book of Ruth reminds us that when we seek God, we find him.
