Women of Faith
Ruth
The Loyal Outsider
Covenant Love
Scripture (NIV)
“Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.”
Message
Ruth chose belonging over safety and found a home she was not born into. Loyalty in a hard season plants a future you cannot yet see.
Practice
Choose one commitment you are tempted to abandon and renew it for one more week.
Prayer
Lord, make my love durable. Let me stay kind when staying is costly. Amen.
Lived out
Short practices that fit Ruth's virtue of covenant love.
A practice to try
Five things before the phone
“My old habit was to check my phone before my eyes were properly open, and I would start the day already behind. Now I name five real things I am thankful for first, the specific ones, not the polite ones. The tea. The fact that the test came back clear. Then I pick up the phone.”
TRY TODAY
Name five specific things to God before you unlock your phone tomorrow.
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
A practice to try
The smallest obvious thing
“When I cannot work out God's plan for the next five years, I stopped waiting for the whole map. I do the smallest obvious right thing in front of me. Send the message, pay the bill, apologise. Direction has always shown up in motion, never while I was standing still waiting for certainty.”
TRY TODAY
Do the one small right thing you have been putting off, before the day ends.
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much.”
Luke 16:10 (NIV)