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Thursday... We need to pray each morning for God to open our eyes to see, to really see.

 

Thursday... We need to pray each morning for God to open our eyes to see, to really see.

Over in the OT book of Ruth it tells of this man with his wife and their two sons who went to Moab to live because of a famine where they were living. In their time there he died. The two sons married and they too died. Such tragedy for Naomi, the wife and mother.

Now things were better back home so she decided to go back and the two daughters-in-law wanted to go with her but she convinced one to stay and she did but the other one, Ruth wouldn't hear of it and she went with her.

All that had happened to Naomi was tragic, it really was. She lost her husband and her two sons. Life can be cruel sometimes, can't it?

Ruth 1:19 (NLT) says, "So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by their arrival. 'Is it really Naomi? the women asked.'" Verses 20-21, "'Don't call me Naomi.' she responded. 'Instead call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the Lord has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy upon me?'" 

Yes there was tragedy but she didn't come back empty, she had Ruth. She wasn't alone. God had given her Ruth. And Ruth found a husband there and they became the grandparents of one of the great Kings of Israel, David and later through her line, Jesus was born in this same town, Bethlehem. And the Almighty was with her and was working all this out through her. 

Oh God, open our eyes to see you. We are never alone, you are always with us and you always have a plan and a purpose and to those who follow you, you bring good out of bad. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

 

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