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Final Thoughts

“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.’” Ruth 1:16

Winston Churchill had admirably led the British people through the darkest days, but their chances of holding out against Germany were shrinking. Franklin Roosevelt’s right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, joined Churchill one night. Churchill pleaded for news from Roosevelt. “Here’s what Roosevelt says,” Hopkins began, “‘Whither you go I will go; whither you lodge I will lodge—even to the end.’” Churchill wept.

I love the book of Ruth. Intensely personal, it is a small but essential link in the history of God’s redemptive purposes. When you read the whole book of Ruth, pray and thank God throughout. Thank Him for breaking through hard hearts like Naomi’s, for sustaining the lonely and weary like Ruth, and for loving the broken through people like Boaz.

Thank Him for Jesus. Praise the Lord for these long-deceased friends in the book of Ruth, each of them essential parts of the line that would lead even us to Him. They were all saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, just like us. And one day we’ll worship Jesus alongside them.

SCRIPTURE FOCUS
Hebrews 13:5-6

INSIGHT
No more hunger. No more thirst. No more tears. His name upon our foreheads. Come, Lord Jesus, come!

THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Deuteronomy 21-22
Psalm 90
Acts 14

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