Mourning is associated with darkness, death and loss. People can experience the loss of a loved person or the loss of health and they cannot be comforted. Struggles and battles will follow. So what does this verse mean? Where sin is involved, it leads to death. When we sin, we take God out of His rightful […]
We saw in Chapter 1 that Ruth chose to stay with her mother-in-law rather than return to her own people. In Chapter 2, we see Ruth and Naomi in Bethlehem in a place of desperate hardship. But they discover that God gives grace – gifts we do not deserve – and that he has mercy […]
Today we begin a series in the book of Ruth. The story begins with Naomi returning from Moab to her own hometown, Bethlehem, after her husband and sons die. Ruth, her daughter-in-law, a Moabitess, returns with her. Naomi asks to be called ‘Mara’ because God has caused her life to be very bitter. But we see God’s hand […]