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The Last Blueprint for Love: Choose Rest
(v3) Therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. (v5) And she said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.” – Ruth 3:3,5 For the past couple of day we’ve…
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Fit Check: Dressed for the Right Attention
(v3) Therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. (v5) And she said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.” – Ruth 3:3,5 For the past couple of day we’ve…
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Publicly Cute, Privately Careless?
(v3) Therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. (v5) And she said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.” – Ruth 3:3,5 Yesterday, we read one great trait of…
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The Architect That Changes Everything
(v1-2) Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you? Now Boaz, whose young women you were with, is he not our relative? In fact, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor…(v3) Therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to…
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You Caught My Eye
Scripture Passage: Ruth 2:4-18 Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered him, “The Lord bless you!” Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?” Ruth 2:4-6 Have you ever met someone, and although you did not know them, they caught your attention…
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A ‘Ruth’ for A ‘Boaz’
Scripture Passage: Ruth 2:1-8 So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” ~ Ruth 2:2 From today’s passage, it is amazing how Ruth’s life exhibited such admirable qualities: She was…
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When Love Refuses to Leave
Scripture Passage: Ruth 1:6-22 In the previous post, we looked at how some righteous people leave blessed places due to some suffering and pitch their tents in ‘seemingly fruitful’ places (eg. Elimech and Naomi; Lot and his household). We read that righteous people also experience the storms of life, violent winds of life, etc. (Matthew…
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Where Are You Pitching Your Tent?
“But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?” ~ Ruth 1:20-21 The Book of Ruth is…
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More Than Leftovers
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. “I have loved you,” says the Lord. Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved; But Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.” ~ Malachi…
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The Burden and the Beloved
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. “I have loved you,” says the Lord. Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved; But Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.” ~ Malachi…