We live in a very mobile world.

Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

Anyone who's ever made a major move, moved your family somewhere, had to pack all your

belongings, move across country knows that it is challenging.

The last time my wife and I moved and it really was the first move from one state to another,

I said to her, oh my soul, I hope we never have to do this again. It is quite a

trial, isn't it? How much more when you make the move only to discover you move to the wrong

place? That's exactly what we find in a man today in Ruth Chapter 1 who made a journey to Moab. He

moved to Moab. Now, wait a minute, Moab was a cursed place.

It was a people that the people of God were not supposed to be intermingling with, and yet

Naomi's husband and Limelech moves his entire family there. Before we read the text,

let me just give this good word. God can meet you even in Moab. Thank God

for mercy in Moab because the great context of this story and this book of Ruth is a story of

God's providence and God's redemption. It's powerful. It's beautiful. But there is a tragedy in it.

There's a great family tragedy in the opening verses.

I'm glad that God can turn all things for good to his own purpose and grace and glory.

But I've thought so many times about Ilimaek and his two sons what was lost,

what was lost by their initial move to Moab.

Here's the story, Ruth chapter 1, verse 1. Now, Moab. Here's the story.

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