Keeping A Standard With Blended families (3)

Keeping A Standard With Blended Families

Ruth 1:6–18 NLT

6 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. 7 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. 8 But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. And may the Lord reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me. 9 May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept. 10 “No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.” 11 But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands? 12 No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what? 13 Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.” 14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. 15 “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.” 16 But Ruth replied, “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. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!” 18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.

What do you do when its seems like your destiny has died?

It’s very easy to follow a family member or a leader when things are going great and they are saying and doing what makes you feel good about your self.

But the real test is when things are bad and are getting worse & you will be surprised who’s willing to get down and dirty for that.

Tragedy will hit’s every family eventually, And there is always someone to blame, In this case it would have been Elimelech Naomi’s husband. It was his idea to leave Beth-le-hem judah during a famine to live in a Moab. While living in Moab his two sons find wives and all of a sudden the father and sons all die leaving the 3 women to fend for themselves.. But was it Elimelech fault?

Or was God causing famine, tragedy as a way to push Namoi & Ruth into her destiny..

See Tragedy will teach you,

who you can count on in tuff times

who believes in you when it seems like your failing

Gods Sovereignty (supreme power & authority) is always in control no matter what has happen in our lives he still Loves us and wants us in his perfect will.

Naomi gave the girls an exit strategy, Orpah took it and returned to Moab and we never heard about her again.

Ruth remained and became the mother of many in which Jesus was born..

Naomi was depressed, she felt God had turned his back on her and felt bitter. Yet Ruth looked beyond her pain and saw her destiny… (she clave to her)

What an unusual relationship with a person who isn’t your birth mother..

How Do you see your spouses parents?

What do you call them? if its Mr. & Mrs. then we already know how you see them..

When your child gets married what type of in-law are you going to be?

Is it possible that some relationships aren’t as good as they should because the lack of respect for the others parents?