In the midst of a famine, a move to a foreign country, the deaths of a husband and two sons, would we be faithful to God?
Naomi was!
She didn't know the outcome or purpose of everything happening around her; she didn't know the end of the story. How many times must she have felt alone, abandoned or hopeless through those long, hard days? She even says "The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me" (v. 21b). But, she sought His guidance and remained faithful through it all and the purposes, in the end, were GREAT...beyond anything she could have imagined. May this help us to be faithful even in the midst of what seems confusing, impossible or even tragic. We can't know the end of the story, but we know that it is in God's loving hands (I Peter 5:6-7; Romans 8:28).
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