We live in a fast-paced, ever-moving world where everyone seems to be rushing in every direction.

And yet, in scripture, God desires to teach us that walking with him is our greatest and most important adventure.

Join Scott Pauli along this journey as we rediscover the joy of our walk with Christ.

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, it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled. Let's pause there just a moment.

So the little book of Ruth is set in the context of the previous book, the book of judges.

You remember the period of the judges, every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

It was a time of failed leadership and moral decay and financial uncertainty.

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