#drought #famine: The Bible teaches us about a woman named Naomi. (In The Book of Ruth. I encourage all of us to read it) She was a believing woman who was married with two sons. A famine came down hard on Bethlehem in Judah, where she lived with her family at the time, forcing them to leave (evacuate). They ended up in Moab where both her sons married two Moabite women, Ruth and Orpah. Within ten years of moving to Moab her husband and both her sons died. It was around this time Naomi heard that the Lord was providing food for His people in Bethlehem so she decided to return home. She told Orpah and Ruth she was going back home and told them they should go back to their own Mothers houses and find someone else to marry. Orpah bounced, but Ruth told Naomi “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God." (Ruth 1:16-18) So Ruth stayed with Naomi on her journey back to Bethlehem. The Bible goes on to tell us just as they made it to Bethlehem it was time for the fall harvest. But Naomi was kind of bitter. She just lost both her sons, lost her husband, and was returning home, in her own mind, with nothing. Naomi was angry with God, she says "I went away full, but the LORD has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the LORD has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy upon me?” Ruth 1:21 Once they got settled Ruth told Naomi she was going to go out to the farms and beg for whatever was dropped or left over from the harvesters. She would gather the scraps for food for Naomi and herself. So she went to this farm to plead with the overseer to let her just pick up the scraps. He told her she could. Later on the owner of the land, a very wealthy and righteous man named Boaz, who just so happened to be a relative of her dead husband, saw Ruth out in the fields. Long story short, Boaz told Ruth she could have whatever she wanted, fed her good, ordered his men to give her some of the crops out of what they harvested instead of her having to scrape by what she could find. SWIPE IMAGES TO READ FULL CAPTION


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