Lessons from the book of Ruth
I have recently been looking at the book of Ruth, preparing a Bible Study on ‘Zoom’. There’s a fantastic Youtube video of the whole story which you can watch here - which takes just 7 minutes. Naomi and her husband are driven by famine from Israel to Moab, where their sons marry Moabite women, but then those sons and her husband all die. Naomi decides to return to Israel, and Naomi tells her daughters-in-law to leave her. One of the daughters-in-law – Ruth – refuses to leave, and I love the words of love and faithfulness Ruth speaks to her mother-in-law (Ch 1 v16) ,‘Where you go I will go and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God..’. After quite a story, Ruth marries Boaz and together they have a son, Obed, who is to be the grandfather of King David. When Obed is born, the women of Bethlehem declare “a son has been born to Naomi”. And they all live happily ever after. But before the happy ending, there is very real p