Ruth

The story of Ruth has many lessons to teach us about life in God's kingdom. Chapter one gives us an example that we should not follow. Naomi complain that when she had left Bethlehem 10 years she was full but now she had returned empty. From God's point of view just the opposite may be true. When Elimelech took his family away from the land of Judah he emptied her life. He surrendered his God-given inheritance in favor of the "greener grass" of Moab. Though Naomi felt that she had returned empty-handed she was blind to the blooming faith of her pagan daughter-in-law. She could never imagine what God was preparing to do through this young believer's faith.
Stuart