Life Lesson (verse Ruth 1:5)
If you run from trials they will chase you. If you simply endure your trials then you have paid dearly and gained nothing. If you walk victoriously through your trials then you have learned from them, risen above them and nothing has been wasted. Trials will either make you better or bitter. You choose.
Life Lesson (verse Ruth 1:13)
We naturally think of ourselves. We supernaturally think of others.
Life Lesson (verse Ruth1:15)
The Bible challenges us to live outside of ourselves. The Holy Spirit gives us the power to live outside of ourselves. Jesus models how we are to live outside of ourselves. God tells us to live outside of ourselves.
Life Lesson (verse Ruth 1:20)
We have a decision every day - to be a Naomi or a Mara.
Life Lesson (verse Ruth 1:21)
We are not to complain and we are to be thankful.
Deut 23:3-6 NKJV
3 "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever, 4 because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
Gen 19:36-38 NKJV
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day
Deut 25:5 NKJV
"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Phil 2:3-4 NLT
3 Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. 4 Don't think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing.
1 Thess 5:16-18 NLT
16 Always be joyful. 17 Keep on praying. 18 No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. NLT
Phil 2:14 NKJV
14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,
Phil 2:14 NLT
14 In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing,
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