Ruth: Week 1

My boys were playing air guitar at the dinner table last night. Chris Tomlin was on the radio singing "I Will Follow." The lyrics say:
Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
Where You move, I'll move
I will follow You

Earlier in the day I had finished Session 1, Day 5 where we were introduced to Ruth as she says, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me."

Of all the verses in Ruth, these are probably the most well known and perhaps the most beloved. They may be words you have memorized or maybe you've heard them read at a wedding. Even at our dinner table I told my boys, "Those words are from the Bible. I was just reading them today during my Bible study."

But apart from Ruth 1:16-17 I suspect that few of us have other verses from Ruth memorized or otherwise written on our heart. The Bible is like that. There are, after all, about 3000 pages in my study Bible and I certainly do not have each verse or concept memorized. Yet out of this small book, with a woman's name for a title, I suspect that God is already at work making his Word living and active to us...whether from a well known verse or something more obscure.

So what about you? Is there anything from our study that struck you this week? How did God show himself to you? Did something in God's Word become living and active and sharper than a double-edged sword to you?

Homework this week for discussion next Thursday:
Session/Week 2, Day 1-5

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