Who You Listen To

From quotesgram.com

Once back in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah left home with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of Moab.

Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.  They married Moabite women, one named Orpah, the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two boys nor her husband.

She and her daughters-in-law then prepared to go back from the plateau of Moab because word had reached her there that the LORD had seen to his people’s needs and given them food.

Again they wept aloud; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth clung to her.

“See now,” she said, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her god. Go back after your sister-in-law!”

But Ruth said, “Do not press me to go back and abandon you!

Wherever you go I will go,
wherever you lodge I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people
and your God, my God.

Thus it was that Naomi came back with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 1:1,3-6,14-16,22

"Lord, grant me wisdom and humility to recognize Your voice in the advice and guidance of others."

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