Ruth I
Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may His name be renowned in Israel! (Ruth 4:14 ESV)
High Expectations
Naomi had a rough life… much rougher than mine. Maybe rougher than yours.
But it is not a competition….
But even in the worst of Naomi’s days, widowed… sons dead and ‘stuck’ with Moabite women for family… far, so far from home… unemployed without any human hope for survival…
She knew she had a redeemer.
And we do, too. We actually have it better than Naomi. She hoped in the redeemer to come, sometime. But we know that the redeemer not only WILL live, but is alive!
And redeeming!