Widowage: fatality or responsibility?"

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Theme : " Widowage: fatality or responsibility?" » Text : Ruth 1:6-18

6. Then she arose, she and her daughters-in-law, to leave the land of Moab, for she heard in the land of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and had given them bread. 7. She left her place of residence, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and set out to return to the land of Judah. 8. Naomi then said to her two daughters-in-law: Come on, each one go back to her mother's house! May the Lord show kindness to you, as you did to those who died and to me! 9. May the Lord cause each of you to find rest in a husband's house! And she kissed them. They lifted up their voices, and wept; 10. And they said to him, No, we will go with you to your people. 11. Naomi, says: Go back, my daughters! Why would you come with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who can become your husbands? 12. Go back, my girls, go! I'm too old to remarry. And when I would say: I have hope; if this very night I should be with a husband, and should give birth to sons, 13. would you wait for that until they had grown up, would you refuse for that reason to marry? No, my girls! for because of you I grieved greatly because the hand of the LORD was stretched out against me. 14. And they lifted up their voices, and wept again. Orpah fucked her stepmother, but Ruth became attached to her. 15. Naomi said to Ruth, Behold, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods; go back, like your sister-in-law. 16. Ruth answered: Do not urge me to leave you, to return from you! Where you go I will go, where you stay I will stay; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God; 17. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord treat me with all his rigor, if anything other than death comes to separate me from you! 18. Naomi, seeing her decided to go with her, ceased her entreaties.

Let's remember:

Losing your husband and two children in less than ten years may seem like a fatality. It may seem like pain hurting yourself. What can remain of such a life? Well, God's most precious husband is not lost; He never dies. When pain fills a life, God always prepares the way out, you just have to follow his wind and be attentive to his directions. Three gathered widows who look at each other, not knowing what becomes of their future. But one of them makes a good read about the next life. Ruth made a prophetic statement that was quickly being fulfilled. She said, "Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God." Obviously, in this people, she found consolation thanks to God. Being widowed should not take away lucidity and faith. Being widowed does not mean that tomorrow will be dark and tarnished. Being widowed does not mean that God has put a limit on life. You can lose a spouse and then a son but the consolation can come through your once-widowed daughter-in-law. Even in widowhood, God opens the doors of blessing. Excellent Wednesday. Amen Alain Louz.-