In these first few verses of the book of Ruth we see 3 fatal mistakes. Elimelech had a family to take care of and yet he walked by faith instead of sight, then he focused on the physical not the spiritual, and lastly he should have known that it was better to be hungry in Bethlehem in the will of God, rather than be full in the land of their enemies (Moab). These fatal mistakes cost this family almost everything. First, Elimelech dies, then his wife Naomi allows their boys to marry women from Moab which was forbidden, and because of this they die too. Naomi ends up with two pagan women in a land where she doesn’t belong without any way to survive without a man to take care of her and the other two women. But thank God this is not the end of the story, just the tragic beginning.
Lessons
- It’s been said that crises reveal what we are. They also make us what we are in God’s plan 1 Peter 1 and
James 1 says count it all joy and let patience have it’s perfect work. Don’t get out of the trial, learn what God wants you to from the trial.
- You don’t want to be anywhere out of the will of God. It’s better to starve to death in God’s will rather than be somewhere He doesn’t want you to be.
- When we disobey we put others and ourselves in danger of God’s discipline and all kinds of bad things can happen. We can lose everything.
- God loves it when we come home to Him.
Ruth 1:1-5 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion-Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. 3 Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. 4 Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years. 5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY? HERE IS TODAY’S DAILY BIBLE READING- WWW.HISLOVEMINISTRIES.NET – 4/24 Ruth 1-2, 1 Samuel 3–5, Luke 16:1–18, Psalm 69:16–24
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