Ruth 1:6 KJV
Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Naomi's husband had taken her and the family to a distant country because there was a famine in the Promised Land. I meet a lot of people who have done the same.
• They have looked at the Christian faith
• They have seen things they did not like there
• They have been disappointed because of some trial they faced as a believer
So they have gone to another land.
It's not like things were any better outside of the Promised Land. Sure, their sons found wives, but they were strangers to their faith. And all three men died outside of the Promised Land. They could just as well died at home. But then Naomi heard that the Lord had visited in Israel. While they were away from the Promised Land; God blessed in the Promised Land.
I take that as an ironic warning to stay with the Lord and in His church even if it seems like there is a famine there. When the Lord visits, He will visit His churches. In the letters to the seven churches of Asia, Jesus rebuked the sin in the churches but He did visit the churches. He had no word for those outside of those churches except tribulation.
Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Naomi's husband had taken her and the family to a distant country because there was a famine in the Promised Land. I meet a lot of people who have done the same.
• They have looked at the Christian faith
• They have seen things they did not like there
• They have been disappointed because of some trial they faced as a believer
So they have gone to another land.
It's not like things were any better outside of the Promised Land. Sure, their sons found wives, but they were strangers to their faith. And all three men died outside of the Promised Land. They could just as well died at home. But then Naomi heard that the Lord had visited in Israel. While they were away from the Promised Land; God blessed in the Promised Land.
I take that as an ironic warning to stay with the Lord and in His church even if it seems like there is a famine there. When the Lord visits, He will visit His churches. In the letters to the seven churches of Asia, Jesus rebuked the sin in the churches but He did visit the churches. He had no word for those outside of those churches except tribulation.
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