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.
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
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.
Epilogue
Esther 10:
1. And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea
The Word of God
Esther 9:
18. The Jews in Susan, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it it a day of feasting and joy
Battle Ready and The Word of God
Esther 9:
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the days the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had had rule over them that hated them.)