Hi sweet friends! Ever wanted to click your heels and just go home? Well, today I’m over at Scripture Dig talking about Naomi’s journey home. You know how I love a good Bible study and we’re in Ruth during the month of March…so I’m LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
Read the beginning of the study here and then click the link below and head over to Scripture Dig to finish reading it there! C ya there! đŸ™‚
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I remember watching The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy had just ran away from home in hopes of finding a better life somewhere over the rainbow. When her wildest dreams turned into her worst nightmare, all she wanted to do was click her heals and go home.
A story all too familiar for those who find themselves wandering, wanting, wanton or wounded.
Much like Dorothy, Naomi and her family ran away from home full of hopes and dreams. But with the death of her husband and both of her sons, Naomi’s dreams were dashed and her hopes were gone.
Widows had it hard in a land where they were considered to be of the lowest class beggars.
“Then Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had blessed his people in Judah by giving them good crops again. So Naomi and her daughters-in-law got ready to leave Moab to return to her homeland. With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.” Ruth 1:6-7
All it took was a word from home that God had shown up and blessed His people with food and all that dear woman wanted to do was to click her heals and go home.
Continue reading at Scripture Dig by clicking here.