Weekly Devotion: An Inconvenient T(Ruth)
“Inconvenient” is an understatement.
Here’s what happened to Ruth:
She was from Moab and met her Israelite husband there. His family had moved there when a famine hit their hometown of Bethlehem (before it was famous).
All the men in the family died. It was just Ruth, her sister-in-law Orpah, and her mother-in-law, Naomi.
Naomi was old, and deeply affected by all this loss. She planned to head back to Bethlehem, and told the two Moabite women to stay put, that they should not suffer as she did. Reluctantly, Orpah went back to Moab.