God has not turned away from me. My purpose is to become ready, willing, and worthy to receive God’s blessings.I am more than God’s servant; I am God’s beloved child.
I’m ready, willing and worthy to open my heart and receive all of the heavenly blessings there for me when I believe.
When I’m ready, willing and worthy, God is able to bless me!
Responsive Reading for November 12
After Naomi’s husband and both sons passed away, Naomi urged her daughters in law to remain in Moab and find new husbands. Ruth said to her, “Do not press me to go back and abandon you! Wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God, my God” (Ruth 1:16).
God has not turned away from me. My purpose is to become ready, willing, and worthy to receive God’s blessings.
Ruth asked Boaz, Naomi’s kinsman, if she could glean in his fields. “Casting herself prostrate upon the ground, she said to him, “Why should I, a foreigner, be favored with your attention?” . . . “She said, ‘May I prove worthy of your favor, my lord. You have comforted me. You have spoken to the heart of your servant–and I am not even one of your servants!’” (Ruth 2:10-13).
I am more than God’s servant; I am God’s beloved child.
Boaz said to Ruth, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter! . . . Now rest assured, my daughter, I will do for you whatever you say; all my townspeople know you to be a worthy woman” (Ruth 3:10-11).
I’m ready, willing and worthy to open my heart and receive all of the heavenly blessings there for me when I believe.
“Then the women said to Naomi, ‘Blessed is the LORD . . . who has not failed to provide you today with a redeemer.… May he become famous in Israel! He will restore your life and be the support of your old age, for his mother is the daughter-in-law who loves you. She is worth more to you than seven sons!” (Ruth 4:14-15).
When I’m ready, willing and worthy, God is able to bless me!