Ruth 1:
8 Then Naomi said to her two dayghters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me
Month: January 2024
Text of meditation: Ruth 1:6-22
Reading: Luke 9:
51: …… when the time was come that he should be received up: he steadfastly set his face to go…
Ruth 1:
3. And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons
4. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years
Ruth 1:
1.In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab
I propose a premise from which I hope to expound and attain a conclusion on a topic in dire need of understanding. I’m doing this in conscious knowledge that the cognizance of this matter is the pillar upon which the grace of God and salvation – the true meaning of human existence – hang.
Proem
I was praying one morning in the twelfth month of the year 2019 when I felt attracted to the Book of Ruth in the Bible. I was suddenly seized with the riches of the book. And I felt that God wanted me to have a critical look at it again and to examine my life in the light of it. Every letter, I found, was a treasure “untold.” The book assumed a deeper meaning to me in those dark hours of life; sometimes, a catharsis to a bleeding heart. Yeah, it led to a healing process.