{"id":4717,"date":"2020-05-09T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:20:11","slug":"finding-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2020\/05\/09\/finding-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ruth and Naomi became related through marriage, but it was through their suffering and faith that they became a family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“But Ruth replied, ‘Don\u2019t 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.\u00a0Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the\u00a0Lord\u00a0punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!’\u00a0When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.” Ruth 1:16-18, NLT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Beyond Suffering Bible <\/em>Book Introduction to Ruth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the midst of loss and grief, we may be tempted to doubt God\u2019s goodness.
Over the course of ten years, Naomi buried her husband and both
of her sons. This left her and her daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, widowed and with few options. Both young women initially clung to the mother-in-law that they had come to love, but Orpah eventually heeded Naomi\u2019s advice and returned to her father\u2019s house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruth made a different choice. She stayed at Naomi\u2019s side, proclaiming her allegiance to Naomi and the God she served. Together, Naomi and Ruth found courage to trust God for their survival. As a result, the Lord brought them through their intense grief and into a safe place of promise. They also experienced the compassion and generosity of Boaz, their family redeemer, whom God used to provide for them in ways that were beyond their wildest imaginings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look inside the Beyond Suffering Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth and Naomi became related through marriage, but it was through their suffering and faith that they became a family. “But Ruth replied, ‘Don\u2019t 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,45,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}