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July 3 - Ruth 1 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It is shown here.
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  It is a Monday. It is the first week of July,
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  and I am so glad that you have joined me today because today we
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  open up a sparkly new book of the Bible.
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  And this is a short book with only four chapters that we will
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  get through the entire book. This week, that is the Book of
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  Ruth. This is a wonderful story.
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  This is a story of some seriously.
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  Faithful people caring for each other.
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  And this is also the story that tells about the ancestry of King
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  David. And there is a little theory
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  that says, during King, David's Rule, people weren't happy that
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  he had this moabite Heritage and this story was written to try
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  and quell the unease in the people.
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  But Scholars actually think it's far more likely that this is not
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  just about this narrow view of David.
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  But this is a story that Teaches us that when people are
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  faithful, God is faithful and that, despite just having read
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  the terrible Book of Judges. If you are reading the Bible,
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  beginning to end the terrible things that happened in judges.
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  Where is their faith in this land?
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  Well, this is a story of faithful people.
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  It's in the small stories of small lives in a big nation
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  where there is still faithfulness and love and
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  reverence for God. So this is a Beautiful story.
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  So why don't you join me? As we enjoy this, treat This
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  Book of Ruth As We Begin by reading together, Ruth chapter
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  1. In the days.
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  When the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famine, Came Upon the
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  land. So a man from Bethlehem and
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  Judah left his home and went to live in the country of Moab,
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  taking his wife and two sons with him.
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  The man's name was elimelech and his wife was Naomi their two
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  sons were Marlin and kylian. They were effra, tights, from
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  Bethlehem in the land of Judah and when they reach Moab, they
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  settled. Are then elimelech died and
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  Naomi was left with their two sons, the two sons married
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  moabite women. One married a woman named Alba
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  and the other a woman named Ruth but about 10 years later, both
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  Marlon and kylian died. This left Naomi alone without
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  her two sons or husband. Then they only heard in Moab
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  that the Lord had blessed his people and do.
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  Judah by giving them good crops again, so Naomi and her
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  daughters-in-law got ready to leave.
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  Moab to return to her Homeland for their two daughters in law.
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  She set out from the place where she had been living and they
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  took the road that would lead them back to Judah.
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  But on the way Naomi said to her two, daughters-in-law go back to
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  your mother's homes and may the Lord reward you for your
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  kindness to your husbands. And to me may the Lord bless you
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  with the security of another marriage.
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  And she kissed him goodbye and they all broke down and wept.
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  No. They said we want to go with you
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  to your people but Naomi replied.
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  Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other
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  sons? Who could grow up to be your
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  husband's know my daughter's return to your parents homes
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  for? I am too old to marry again and
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  even if it were possible and I were to get married tonight and
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  best Sons. And then, what would you wait
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  for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else?
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  No, of course not. My daughter's things are far
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  more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has
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  raised his fist against me. And again, they wept together
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  and orpah, kissed her mother-in-law goodbye.
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  But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. Look Naomi said to her, your
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  sister-in-law has gone back. Have people.
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  And to her Gods, you should do the same.
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  But Ruth replied. Don't ask me to leave you and
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  turn back wherever you go. I will go wherever you live.
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  I will live your people will be my people and your God will be
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  my God. Wherever you die?
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  I will die. And there I will be buried.
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  May the Lord punish me severely, if I allow anything but death to
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  Eight Us by Naomi saw. That Ruth was determined to go
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  with her. She said nothing more.
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  So the two of them continued on their Journey when they came to
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  Bethlehem. The entire town was excited by
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  their arrival. Is it really Naomi?
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  The women asked, don't call me Naomi, she responded instead
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  call me. Mara for the almighty has made
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  life. Very bitter for me, I went away
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  full but The Lord has brought me home.
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  Empty why call me Naomi when the Lord has caused me to suffer and
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  the almighty have sent such tragedy upon me.
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  So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by her
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  daughter-in-law Ruth. So young moabite women.
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  They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring at the beginning of
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  the barley Harvest. God, you are the most wonderful
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  God you have in your scope of understanding the huge
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  narratives of Nations and history but your I also rests on
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  individual stories And at a time when as a nation, there was such
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  evil and faithlessness you still see this one family and their
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  story of faithfulness. Thank you, that you see us.
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  You see our stories in the midst of a very big world with lots
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  going on your eye, and your love, and your attention, and
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  your care. It's still Embraces us in our
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  stories. Thank you for being such a god
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  of the intimate and the personal.
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  We are so grateful and we love you.
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  And it's in Jesus name that we pray.
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  Amen.