You know, the little choices you make have a big impact on the rest of your life.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

If I am not willing to let God control my life in the area of what I eat and how I use my time

and how I do my work, if I'm not disciplined in those areas, disciplined by the spirit of God,

then what makes me think that under pressure, I will be morally

disciplined? This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo. Author of Holiness,

The Heart God Purifies. For January 27th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

I think a lot of people think worship is something we do on Sunday, and work is something we do and, well, sometimes dread on Monday.

Well, we're going to hear a different perspective today.

We're going to continue looking at the life of Ruth.

As a poor widow, she had to toil tirelessly to feed her family, but she didn't resent it.

Let's join Nancy at a series called Ruth, the transforming power of redeeming love.

We come today again to chapter two in our study of the book of Ruth. The word that stands out

to me from this chapter is the word refuge. We're going to see that Ruth finds a refuge,

and the grace of God becomes her refuge, even though she's a widow.

She is a foreigner now living in the land of Israel. She's returned with her mother-in-law Naomi

to Bethlehem from the land of Moab. But she's very lonely. She has just this bitter, frustrated mother-in-law that she's living

with, and she's very alone as a widow and a foreigner in this culture. The scripture gives us a little

glimpse of what's coming and tells us that Naomi had a relative on her husband's side from the

clan of Elimelech. Limelik was her husband, but this relative was a man of standing whose name was Boaz.

And we were reminded of the law of the kinsman Redeemer, God's provision, where a relative

would help his impoverished relatives.

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