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(June 9, 2020) From Ruth 2:3b “It just so happened to happen that Ruth found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.”  This sentence begins in a very interesting way and is a little difficult to translate literally: “It befell her to chance …”  or “Ruth chanced a chance…”  Some have [...]

(June 8, 2020)   From Ruth 1:19 “So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.”  So Naomi finally returns to Bethlehem.  It has been so long and so much has happened that you might imagine how much talk was going around that small town.  “Naomi is back!” But Naomi responds: Do not call me “Naomi” (which [...]

( June 3, 2020) From Ruth 1:16-18 “…Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.... May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.”  Sometimes we resist God’s call, like Jonah.  [...]

(June 2, 2020) From Ruth 1:16  “…For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God...”  Yesterday Naomi offers her two daughters-in-law a gift: the freedom to remain. Orpah accepts it; Ruth doesn’t.  …But why the difference? It is easy to understand Orpah, isn’t it?  Why would [...]

(June 1, 2020) From Ruth 1:8 “But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, ‘Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.’” Naomi finally returns home because the famine is over and God has visited His people (1:6). Naomi’s two daughter-in-laws begin [...]

(May 27, 2020) Ruth 1:7 “With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.” There is far too much to Moab for just one day. When Naomi’s husband died she was “left with her two sons.” Then they died [...]