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Life belongs to the Lord. It is not for us to destroy.”
“Your God used a woman to fulfill His plans for your people?” “You never know who the Lord will use. Perhaps one day, it will be you, Ruth.”
“If God spared us from the piercing shaft of every sorrow,” she said, “we could never fulfill His best plans for our lives. Sometimes the sweetest things in life rise up out of the worst things in life.”
He brought us to Moab to save us. Instead, we have met our doom here.”
Guide my steps to the field of Your choosing.
“You chose to be an outsider for the sake of a hurting widow. You accepted loneliness so that she could have companionship.
The Lord is never far. It is our blindness that makes Him seem so. The veil between heaven and earth is parchment thin.”
“So what shall I do? Drown in my longing for what I cannot have or anchor my feet to the joy that I do have?”
No sorrow is ever wasted in His hands.”
“Chance is God’s way of showing up without making an announcement.”
You are my today. My tomorrow.”
When I consider the past year, I grow convinced that the Lord chose to guide us every step of the way.
Love. She had not known it could drown you like a rolling ocean. Tether you like a rope of iron. Heal you like a balm. She held her babe and forgot the world.
There were many obstacles against you being born. God must have really wanted you in this world. He went to a great deal of trouble to make sure that you lived. Never forget how important you are to Him.”
With all my heart, I love you, Ruth of Moab.”
True success only means one thing: obedience to the Great Shepherd. Loving Him. Following Him. Abiding with Him.
