The Inscape of Faith

Reading: Ruth, 3’1-18

Ruth 2:20

“The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative: he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”  read more

Reading: Esther 2:1-25

Esther 2:

1. Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side from the clan of Elimelech, a man of standing, whose name is Boaz read more

Esther 2:

1. Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side from the clan Elimelech, a man of standing, whose name was Boaz. read more

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 read more

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… read more

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 read more

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 read more

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. read more

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. read more

Epilogue

Esther 10:

1. And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea read more