Sermon
Naomi: Seeking Satisfaction Through Power
Naomi learned that when everything is beyond her control, everything safely rests in God’s loving hands.
Naomi learned that when everything is beyond her control, everything safely rests in God’s loving hands.
Despite famine and heartbreak, we see God moving forward with His plan of redemption in the lives of Naomi and Ruth… all the way to Jesus.
When we’re experiencing loss and pain and heartache and grief, it either drives the roots of our faith deep into who God is for us or uproots us altogether.
We have to wait upon God’s perfect timing, submit to His perfect will, and rest in His perfect sufficiency.
Sometimes it’s the setbacks of life where we see God’s glory most clearly.
Boaz purchased Ruth in love just as Jesus purchased us on the cross.
Every one of us has lost something: a job, a loved one, or a sense of normalcy. And such losses cause us to grieve—individually or, at times, collectively across the world. In the book of Ruth, we find two women whose worlds have been shattered by loss and who don’t …
Jesus is setting right all that went wrong in Adam. Where Adam failed, Christ prevailed.
Obedience always requires faith, surrender, letting go, and trusting an unknown future to an all-knowing God.