Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth.

So the story of Ruth in the Bible is easy to read, it's fun to teach. Lots and lots of women's Bible studies are done over Ruth and I've kind of been part of several of them.

Some are better than others because they often just center on Ruth and

how faithful and courageous she is and how much she loves God. And yes, that's all true. But Ruth is more than a story of a

faithful woman. It's a story of God's healing and God's redemption. It's a bigger

picture of God working behind the scenes in

one family's story when things just honestly didn't look like they could get

much worse. It's an even bigger picture of God working behind the scenes in history to make his promises for all of his people come true.

It's actually a picture of how and why this verse in Romans 828 truly is believable.

Romans 828 says and we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those

who love him. The story of Ruth is how we know that a

family who has no hope can hope again. Now remember there was a famine in

Bethlehem and Naomi fled with her husband and her sons to the foreign country of Moab.

And while they were there, tragedy struck.

And she lost her husband and both of her sons who had married Moa by women.

So at that point, Nomey was no longer just a foreigner in Moa,

but she was also a widow.

And so what's she going to do?

But she hears that the famine is over in Bethlehem. So she decides to return home, even though this is going to be really embarrassing and hard to do because she's going back worse than she left. Now the only thing

Naomi had left in Moab were two daughters in law and she tells them to stay where

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