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Find Hope When You Have Lost Everything

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Ruth 1:20-21 NIV 

[20] “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. [21] I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” 

We now come to a situation that is so beyond awful that I pray this study is something you have not experienced and will never experience. 


Last year we were in New York. On one of our first journeys in their metro system, a man who was apparently neatly dressed stood up in the carriage and announced his situation. He had lost his job. He had lost his house. By the looks of things, it was pretty recent. He had nowhere to live. He was asking for money so he could sleep in a homeless shelter for the night. 


It was heart-breaking to see. 


Many of us live in countries where the governments have set up a social care net to catch those in need. There are charities who are willing to help. You can end up in difficulties, but you will never be alone. You don’t need to stay down. You can get out of there. 


Others, like America, have a reduced safety net. You are permanently one bad break away from a sudden plunge into poverty. And when you hit the bottom, you hit it hard. 


What we are looking at today is a women who hit the bottom and hit it very hard. She had once been relatively well off. But she had lost everything and ended up pretty much destitute. 


What happened to her is a serious life lesson in which we also find a great deal of hope. 


The book is called Ruth. She, quite rightly, grabs the headlines. But the focus of this study is on her mother-in-law, Naomi. 


This wonderful story has four phases to its arc, the first of which is The Leaving. 

 

The Leaving 

Ruth 1:1-2 NIV 

[1] In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. [2] The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rut.1.1-2.NIV)


Nowadays in the UK, the concept of a migrant who leaves one country to go to another to find a better life is controversial. I profoundly disagree. To criticise people coming to our country when hundreds of thousands of British people retire overseas for the better weather or for tax breaks is profoundly hypocritical. 


Apart from the legal aspect, there is no difference between a Sub-Saharan economic migrant and a British economic migrant. The motivation is entirely the same. 


Naomi and Elimelech were economic migrants and climate refugees, to use modern terminology. They left because of a famine and to seek a better life. 


Crucial also to understanding of these verses is this important detail: 


Ruth 1:1 NIV 

[1] In the days when the judges ruled..  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rut.1.1.NIV)


This is what the book of Judges itself says about the time of the judges: 


Judges 21:25 NIV 

[25] In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/jdg.21.25.NIV)


Any even passive reader of the book of Judges can confirm that. It was a time of constant anarchic upheaval, violence and disorder. Some of the judges even contributed to it. 


And then there’s the famine. This was listed as a cause of famine in Jewish law: 


Deuteronomy 28:47-48 NIV 

[47] Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, [48] therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. 

Deuteronomy 32:15-18, 24 NIV 

[15] Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior. [16] They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. [17] They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear. [18] You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. 
[24] I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust. 

So we have a chaotic land where people are not worshipping or obeying God and are enduring a famine as punishment for their sin. 


Be honest: would you not be among the first in the immigration queue? Would you not be checking if you could settle somewhere else – anywhere else? 


We can understand their instinct to leave for somewhere better. We get it. In our unguarded moments, I’m sure that all of us would admit that in their situation we would do the same. 


Yet the big difference between Moab and Israel is that Israel was the Promised Land and Moab was not. 


If you have a look in the history of the Jewish Patriarchs, you will notice that leaving the Promised Land didn’t always go so well.


Abraham did it twice – to Egypt (Genesis 12:10-20) and to Philistia (Genesis 20).


Isaac also did it to Philistia (Genesis 26:1-20).


Yes, they prospered from these sojourns overseas, but in all three cases they had to adopt a foolish ruse to protect themselves that could have lost them their wives. 


Even Jacob’s move to Egypt to be with Joseph, which rescued his family from destitution (Genesis 45:1-11) ended in brutal slavery (Exodus 1:6-14). 


The reason for all these is that God’s people left to look after themselves, but remained too long outside of the Promised Land. In Naomi’s case, she stayed in Moab for at least ten years (Ruth 1:4). Evidently her family enjoyed life in Moab so much that they planned to settle there – hence the taking of Moabite wives. 


Now, this entailed a very specific risk – that of being enticed to follow the Moabite pagan religion (Numbers 25:1-3). So the act of taking this risk is another piece if evidence that they had turned their back on both the land and the laws that God had given them. 


In immigration terms, we could say that they were guilty of overstaying. 


I must add that this is not always the root cause of tragic loss. We make a serious mistake if we believe that it is. Many times tragedy strikes us for seemingly no other reason than this world being fallen. God has a purpose in it, but we don’t always perceive it or understand it.

 

There are also examples in the Bible of people who seem to have experienced loss despite having been faithful to God, such as Job (Job 1:1). 


However, the reality is that if we turn our back on God and His promises when life gets tough, we may find there are consequences for this. Especially if we try to make a life away from Him and outside of His promises. It’s hard to argue against God when we face such hardship. 


After the leaving, we see the most painful part of this story: The Loss. 

 

The Loss 

Ruth 1:3-5 NIV 

[3] Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. [4] They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, [5] both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rut.1.3-5.NIV)


Let me get this straight: the loss of any loved one is very sad. If you find yourself in this position, you have both my condolences and my understanding. It is always deeply painful. 


This is a path I have walked myself. I am aware of how much it hurts. 


But for Naomi, this situation was three times as bad, and then some more. 


First she lost her husband Elimelech (Ruth 1:3). That is a very painful loss which cannot ever be underestimated. 


In ancient times it was worse. The man was the breadwinner of the home. Women were not normally permitted to work on their own. Losing a husband without another man in the house meant instant poverty, added to the pain of bereavement. 


Around ten years later, things got much worse for Naomi: she lost both of her sons Mahlon and Kilion.  


At this point, Naomi had hit rock bottom. She had lost everything. Her means of survival had gone. She was now teetering on the very edge of destitution. 


Some of us might struggle with this quite badly. We are well aware of this verse: 


James 1:16-17 NIV 

[16] Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. [17] Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.  

And also this one: 


Romans 8:28 NIV 

[28] And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.8.28.NIV)


But we cannot see the good in this. We have lost so much and feel that all we have gained is pain. Those are the times when we sing the words of this modern hymn with a deep and personal understanding of what they really mean: 


‘Mine are tears in times of sorrow 

Darkness not yet understood 

Through the valley I must travel 

Where I see no earthly good’ 


Naomi would have felt exactly like this. 


And do you know something? I am not going to sit here and tell you that I know what God is doing when  something like this happens. I would not do you the massive disservice of even pretending to know, because I don’t. When you pass through this deep valley of suffering, explanations don’t really help, because understanding why doesn’t take away the pain. 


Naomi had an explanation: 


Ruth 1:20-21 NIV 

[20] “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. [21] I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” 

In the midst of her deep suffering and near destitution, Naomi has not let go of the absolute sovereignty of God. 


But it doesn’t appear to have brought her much comfort. 


Why? 


Because amidst her awareness of the sovereignty of God, we see no sign of any belief in the goodness of God, or the love of God. She only sees a God who has brought misfortune on her. There is no sense of purpose, no sense of meaning. It’s just bad. 


Maybe today you stand with Naomi. The truth is that sometimes we can’t know what God is doing when we suffer. 


Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV 

[8] “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. [9] “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/isa.55.8-9.NIV)


Romans 11:33 NIV 

[33] Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rom.11.33.NIV)


When we can’t know God’s purposes, we must trust the God who purposes. 


As the hymn writer Joseph Anstice wrote: 


‘O Lord, how happy should we be 

If we could cast our care on Thee, 

If we from self could rest, 

And feel at heart that One above, 

In perfect wisdom, perfect love, 

Is working for the best!’ 


Naomi did not sense that. She sunk into despair in the face of her unimaginable loss and skulked home defeated. That’s something we can understand in a way, given the scale of her loss. 


But is it inevitable? 


Perhaps not. 


Incredibly, despite her slide from riches into abject poverty, there was still hope for Naomi.


We have seen the first two stages of her story in leaving and loss. Now we see what turned everything around as we look at The Love. 

 

The Love 

Ruth 1:16-17 NIV 

[16] But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. [17] Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”  

I have a serious confession to make which may change your opinion of me: 


I am a man. 


I mean, I’m not just someone who thinks they are a man, I am someone who emerged as a male when he came out of his mother’s womb.


I am a natural man. 



As a natural man, I like to do two things: I like to explain things and I like to fix things. So when someone comes to me in despair asking questions like they are bullets from an automatic machine gun, I’m inclined to not treat them as rhetorical but to find answers to those questions. When someone is broken apart by life, I want to try to fix them. 


But more often than not, I find myself in the frustrating position of bring able to do neither. 


This is where I can learn so much from Ruth. 


Naomi is in utter despair. Her losses are incalculable. Her pain palpable. What did Ruth do? Did she tell her to cheer up? Did she explain the theology of suffering to her? Did she write a book on how she is coping? 


No. None of that. 


She dedicated herself to standing with Naomi no matter what. 


That dedication is quite something. She is standing beside someone who is destitute.


Naomi has nothing but suffering to offer her in return. 


Yet Ruth is prepared to do exactly that. 


This level of companionship and friendship demonstrated 1 Corinthians 13 before Paul the Apostle was even a twinkle in his grandparents’ eyes.  


As Solomon wrote: 


Proverbs 17:17 NIV 

[17] A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.17.17.NIV)


Proverbs 18:24 NIV 

[24] One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.18.24.NIV)


Let me tell you, when you have lost absolutely everything, you need friends on whom you can rely. You need spouses who won’t walk out or give up on you. You need family who point blank refuse to kick you when you’re down, and instead are prepared to give you a hug, who back you one hundred percent. 


In short, you need a support network. 


Now, we have all had our fair share of ‘fair weather friends’ who stick with you when everything is fine, but run a mile as soon as things get tough. These people are not friends. They do not know the meaning of the word. They are leeches. Their relationships are transactional – they are in it only for what they can get. 


You need to suss these people out and keep them at arms length. People like this will not lift you out of a bad situation.  


But you must cultivate relationships with people who will always have your back, no matter who they are. Cultivate them. Strengthen them. Be their support when they need you so that one day you will support them. 


Those are the people you really need. 


Naomi had someone like that. She had Ruth. 


Who do you have? 


But apart from Ruth, there is another love here: that of Boaz for Ruth.   


I’m not going to go through the whole story. You should read this book. It is a thing of exquisite beauty. 


However, I will highlight this exchange: 


Ruth 4:1-10 NIV 

[1] Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. [2] Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. [3] Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. [4] I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said. [5] Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.” [6] At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.” [7] (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.) [8] So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal. [9] Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. [10] I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!” 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/rut.4.1-10.NIV)


Now, this is full of ancient rites and traditions. It is an enactment of this law: 


Deuteronomy 25:5-6 NIV 

[5] If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. [6] The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/deu.25.5-6.NIV)


While this too seems quite obscure, it seems like it is a codification of an ancient tradition: 


Genesis 38:8 NIV 

[8] Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/gen.38.8.NIV)


In the ancient world, if a man died, his brother would marry his wife. This had two purposes. Firstly, it prevented the widow from falling into poverty. Secondly, their first child would be of the line of the dead brother to ensure that his name didn’t die out. 


Such people were called ‘guardian redeemers’.  


But it required a sacrifice: they had to marry someone else’s wife and have a child who wouldn’t be theirs but could still inherit from their estate. It required a risk. The first guardian redeemer was not prepared to take that risk of diluting his estate. 


But Boaz was. This rich landowner who was under no obligation to care about Ruth or Naomi was willing to do the right thing by them and raise them out of poverty. 


That is truly a special thing. 


It’s also a picture that reminds is of what Jesus did for us: 


2 Corinthians 8:9 NIV 

[9] For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/2co.8.9.NIV)


Whenever we’ve lost everything we long for some rich benefactor to come along and take all our worries and trials away. But we already have one: 


Psalms 50:9-10 NIV 

[9] I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, [10] for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 

This rich benefactor came to earth to rescue us from the reason why it is that we become poor – sin. In doing so, He bore our suffering, guilt and shame (Isaiah 53:4-5), and in doing so brings us hope that our suffering will one day end. And that end will come. 


Boaz’s redemption of Ruth and Naomi from deprivation is a picture of Jesus Christ’s redemption of us from our sin – the source of our deprivation. 


So today, if you feel like your life has ended because you have lost everything, raise your eyes to the cross and realise your redemption is nearer than ever before (Romans 13:11). 


One day your suffering will be over, and it will not be long. 


And love will be the reason. 


We have seen, then, the first three phases of Naomi’s story, that of leaving, loss and love. 

The third phase, in verses we might read through without thinking about them too much, is utterly glorious: that of Line. 

 

Line 

Ruth 4:18-22 NIV 

[18] This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, [19] Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab, [20] Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, [21] Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed, [22] Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David. 

Matthew 1:5-6 NIV 

[5] Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, [6] and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.1.5-6.NIV)


British high society, as I’m sure you will know, is dominated by a hereditary bunch of aristocrats and nobles, chief of which are the Royal family. They do not hold high positions due to merit, but due to who their parents were. 


In fact, there are several whom we sincerely wish were not there because they are far from our ‘betters’. 


These people measure their distance from becoming ceremonial rulers of the UK not by winning an election but by what number they are in line to the throne, as if they were in a call centre queue or in a dentists’ waiting room. 


The Bible also has genealogies. For a culture that spent so many years in exile, those genealogies were important. They were the record of who was genuinely an Israelite and who was not. 


If we are honest, we speed-read through these Biblical records because they rarely reveal anything of relevance to us. 


Except this. 


This genealogy reveals some absolutely fascinating details. 


For example, Boaz’s mother was called Rahab. She was the Jericho prostitute who sheltered the Israelite spies and was rescued when the city fell (Joshua 2, 6). She was not a Jew, but became a convert when she saw the greatness of God (Joshua 2:8-11). 


Already, that’s fascinating. 


This man then went on to marry a destitute Moabite woman. 


And what happened then is really remarkable. 


Ruth and Boaz were the great-grandparents of King David – the greatest king the Israelites ever had. 


And who came from David’s line? 


Follow the ancestry in Matthew 1 and it ends with this: 


Matthew 1:15-17 NIV 

[15] Elihud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, [16] and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. [17] Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah. 

This story had a hugely inauspicious beginning. There was a Jewish family who became climate refugees and economic migrants, seeking a better life in the pagan nation of Moab.


There they settled and married, before tragedy struck. 


But look how God was moving through that strategy. It was His plan for Ruth to be the great-grandmother of a great and powerful king. It was His plan to have this Moabite woman, married to a migrant Jew, to be forebear of the Jewish Messiah. 


Look how He achieved that plan: He took the lives of three precious men: Elimelech, Mahlon and Kilion. He reduced a proud family to destitution so they would travel back to Naomi’s home town and Ruth would meet her new husband and guardian redeemer while gleaning leftover corn from his field with the other poor people of the area. 


It is truly extraordinary. 


Out of deeply tragic and painful loss came a salvation plan for billions. 


We don’t always see what God is doing. Our vision of His plan is often myopic in the extreme: we only see what’s happening right in front of us. 


But what this short, romantic book tells us is that God is even working in the midst of our deepest sorrow and pain, even when it looks like we have lost everything. 


And His plan is always good. 

 

Conclusion 

Ruth 4:13-17 NIV 

[13] So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. [14] The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! [15] He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” [16] Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. [17] The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. 

In 2001, I experienced changes in my life that I did not expect would ever happen, and certainly not at such a tremendously fast pace.


In 2001, I met the woman who later became my wife, in a most unusual circumstance: in the bookstore of Operation Mobilisation's MV Doulos while it was moored in Cebu City, Philippines, not far from the washrooms.


In 2001, my father died. I returned home from the mission field in Romania just two weeks before he passed. He was just forty-eight years old.


In 2001, it became apparent that my missionary career was over. The door was firmly closed. I knew it. My team knew it.


I was in a lot of pain and undergoing a lot of stress. I had no idea what would happen next. The stress was so great that I ended up ill.


And all this time, I was convinced that the woman I had met in Cebu City was going to be my wife. I had no income at all and was too ill to look for work.


Yet here I am, twenty-five years later, married to her, with a daughter and writing these studies.


Life has a habit of throwing frustrating and difficult experiences at us. Some we can just about handle. 


Others are seemingly way more than we can bear. 


I’ve known more than my fair share of those. 


We quickly become frustrated or angry or resigned and depressed. We look for meaning or purpose and we don’t find it. 


All we see is pain. 


It’s then we should read what happened with Naomi. 


Yes, we can debate whether or not leaving the Promised Land was a good idea. Personally, since so many millions of people have done precisely the same thing, I don’t see a thing wrong with it. 


What made the difference, I believe, is the settling for a life outside of God’s promises. It’s the long time spent in Moab. That for me changes the nature of this story. 


Then we have the desperately sad loss of three very important men in Naomi’s life, and her reduction to destitution. From any perspective, she has lost it all. 


But we cannot ignore the reality that it was love that restored her, and placed her, a former climate refugee and economic migrant, in the family line of the Messiah. 


Yes, our situations can frustrate us and get us down. There is no doubt about that. We can feel like everything is over, like we’ve lost it all. 


But what this little romantic book tells us is that even through all the pain, God still has a plan for us, and that plan is only, always, forever for our good: 


Jeremiah 29:11 NIV 

[11] For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/111/jer.29.11.NIV)


2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NIV 

[16] Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. [17] For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. [18] So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 

God knows your pain. He knows precisely how it feels to lose something so very precious and important to you. He is always watching you. 


The God who surveyed His Son to save you will not abandon you. Not now. Not ever. 


And He can turn your situation right around. 


So don’t give up, friend. Never give up. No matter what you have lost. 


Because it isn’t over. 


One day all your suffering will be over. 


And each passing day brings you one day closer. 

 

Prayer 

Lord Jesus, thank You for this deeply inspiring story of Your ancestor. Help me to learn that even when things are looking very bleak for me, there is still hope. There is always hope, because in You it’s never over. Amen. 

 

Questions for Contemplation  

  • What sufferings did Naomi endure? What did she do about them and why? 

  • What was it that changed her situation? What can we learn from this? 

  • What blessing did she receive? What blessings do we receive when we cling onto God even as we lose everything else? 

 

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