Do you have a Ruth attitude or a Orpah attitude?
While I was studying the book of Ruth, I meditated on the differences between Ruth and Orpah, and their future. The book of Ruth is about a woman, Naomi, and her family, who relocated from their home in Bethlehem to Moab in order to feed themselves, since there was famine in their homeland. Naomi had two sons but lost them both not too long after their father passed on. These sons had one wife each, Ruth and Orpah, whom Naomi testified of as being kind women, before they died. Now that their husbands were dead, all three women were full of sorrow and unimaginable agony. Naomi concluded, after losing her beloved sweetheart and precious children, that the land Moab was no longer worthy of living in. She also heard that God had blessed the people in Judah by giving them crops again, so she decided to go to Judah. Of course, as kind women, both Ruth and Orpah, decided to embark on the journey with her. They both agreed not to leave her (Ruth 1:5). Naomi tried all she could to persuade them...