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JULY 14
HELLO MY NAME IS RUTH—PART 3

Scripture:  Ruth 1:16,17 “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:  Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”  
 
     Hello. My name is Ruth.  Here’s the rest of my story. What a story for a little girl from Moab.  Now I’m living in a fine house in Bethlehem with one of the richest men in all of the land. What more could a girl want!  I delivered our first child, a boy.  We were so happy.  The neighbors named him Obed.  Now here’s the story that God has written for me.  God brought me out of a heathen land, Moab and brought me to the house of Boaz a Jew, living in Bethlehem-Judah.  We had a son by the name of Obed and he was such a precious child and such a blessing to Boaz and I.  But what you may not know is that when Obed grew up he also had a son.  His name was Jesse.  And Jesse also had several sons, one of them was David who would become the King.  
    The greatest thing about this story that God has written is that He allowed me to be the great grandmother of King David. That meant that I was in the lineage of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to this Earth. Praise the Lord.  I can’t think of anything better.  What a different story would have been told if they had never come to Moab.  What a different story if I had decided to stay in Moab!  The truth is that you probably would not know me, because nothing really special would have ever happened in my life.  No book would have been written about me.  But God was writing my story a long time before I ever knew anything about it and I’m so glad He did.  Why not let God write your story today?