Eternal Perspective: Ruth Chapter One
Ruth Chapter One: Eternal Perspective
Summary and Background:
Author: possibly Samuel
- Spans about 12 years
- Bridges the time between the Judges of Israel and the time of the Kings
Summary
Ruth an Israelite woman is living in Moab, a country that had once held the Israelites as captives. She is there to escape a famine in Israel. It is important to take note that she was living there. She did not just visit to get some food and leave. She is there with her husband, two sons and their Moabite wives. When her husband and sons die of some sort of sickness, or accident she is left alone in Moab. As a widow she will be dependent on family or society for her welfare. With no family left, she heads back to Israel. She urges her daughters-in-law to stay in Moab and remarry. Orpah goes back to her father's house, but Ruth chooses her mother in law and her mother in laws God over the prospect of marriage. The two of them arrive in Israel at the harvest. Naomi is despondent.
What I learned from Ruth Chapter One:
1.An eternal perspective helps you see what really matters and make choices in line with God's economy.2.To gain you have to be willing to sacrifice.
3.God provides relationships to help us along his plan for our lives.
4.Even in Moab God is working His plan, His people are never out of His hands.
5.Famines don't last forever.
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