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• • The book of Ruth, the ultimate love story in the bible I mean it’s called the literary book. A prophetic book on a personal level. It’s one of the most significant books that talks about the role of our Kingsman redeemer but it leads to our ultimate redeemer Jesus. And that was all the things that I was going to talk about today but the Lord changed all of that, hi everyone this is Tammy Becker welcome to this week’s episode of the almighty God and Gospel Girl podcast, I’ve chosen to talk about the book of Ruth in our readings which this week were the book of Ruth all the way through 1st Samuel chapter 20. Now it’s gonna be a tough, tough week for me because I’ve had a lot of things going on and, you know I’ve lost both of my parents, trying to get back in to… just routine, trying to find my place, trying to make sure I’m in God’s will, everything seems out of sort the one man that I always turn to, my dad, that was always there for me has now passed also when I call in time I had a question for with anything in the bible is now gone to heaven, I mean good for him, I’m just, um I mean he’s, he’s rejoicing that’s for sure but the fleshly body you know I’m, I’m left here in the flesh which is grieving for my parents and, so this week is gonna be a little tough so, but we will get through it I mean I had like, I had four thousand words typed because I love the book of Ruth I mean it is the ultimate love story it’s just the beautiful story of God’s redeeming love and grace in the bible and that his ideal purpose comes to fruition for us but you know I lost those words I have nothing, right now I’m just winging it, I lost the words for the podcast and I haven’t been winging the podcast lately I’ve been typing them out if you’ve been following me I’ve been putting them on the website for you so that you can follow along in these study that we’re doing this investigating these rabbit trails and deep diving into the bible together, but not this week I lost it which I have lot to say so I don’t even know how I lost it but it must’ve been God’s plan. 

I’m still talking about Ruth today but God changed it all, he completely changed what I’m talking about Ruth not talking about the ultimate love story the literary level about the pathetic message about it or the Kingsman redeemer you probably know about anyway, but what I’m talking about is the story and the purpose in grief that comes from Ruth you know I, to give you a little background I’ve been doing for the past two years with my failing parents and last summer I had to go out and um  basically sell the parents’ home, help them sell their home get them into assisted living then January 14^th to this year my mom just couldn’t hold on any longer and she went to heaven, then on the first day of spring March 20^th I flew out to surprise my dad to California and while I was in flight, when I landed my sister told me dad didn’t make it and I said “what do you mean dad didn’t make it?”, she goes “he passed”, and I said “what do you mean dad passed?” I mean there was no, there was nothing there, there was, we had no indication he was gonna pass I was coming to cheer him up, I was coming to grieve with him, I was coming to work through the grief of mom with him and to help him and to hopefully cheer him up but yet when I landed there was another surprise, he had passed. So I had to go see him but not getting to see him alive, well that rocked my world, so I ended up staying in California helping my two sisters close everything out, clean his apartment, close his retirements out and prepare what was going to be the celebration of life for my mom on May 1^st, now became a double celebration for life. And so I stayed away from home, we worked through all that, travelled the Arizona because my dad wanted his pastor from where he had lived and their marriage together their whole life in Arizona and their pastor to do the celebration of life, we went over there on May 1^st to do that and to say our final goodbyes. Now I’m home, that was the first and I am just struggling to find my place, I am struggling to get to the grief and to just, um see what this season is sometimes I feel inadequate right now and so when I lost all the words to the podcast I’m like “oh is this well, you gave me the podcast you got after me Lord for way over a year just to do the podcast” so I pray about it sometimes I, you know I feel like sometimes when God is silent he is waiting, he is just waiting for us to calm down and to listen, sometimes in through the grief I don’t know if I’m hearing him but, so I’m taking a moment, I , this podcast is due at tomorrow I don’t know if you guys will get it tomorrow but will do my best, but pray for me because I am grieving and we all go through this it’s part of life, I mean we start dying from the day that we’re born but when we talk about Ruth in the bible we know that God identifies that there’s a purpose and there’s a plan just as with Ruth we don’t understand when she loses, when they all lose their husband, Ruth, Naomi, Naomi loses her husband and her two daughter in laws lose their husbands and their grieving we don’t know the whole purpose, at that time they didn’t know the whole purpose. Long story short, we do know that our redeemer comes from the line of boas who becomes their Kingsman redeemer through their grief and through their loss, so there’s mixed blessings in that story that we see. When we’re in our current chapter we don’t know what’s gonna be the next chapter, we can always know what’s gonna be the next chapter where God has planned for us or what’s gonna happen but we can rest knowing that whatever God has is the ultimate plan for my life, for your life, for our life, and things may not seem the best right now like dad’s passing doesn’t seem the best, mom’s passing doesn’t seem the best, but we’re gonna see in our next chapter or next season that it’s all gonna go together for the good of the Lord. As of today I don’t see it necessarily, but I know from previous experience with the Lord that it all ties together and that it will all be well down the road and I need to trust and obey, and continue to study in his word as do we all, but the longer we stay in the field of loss is the longer that we lose the treasure that God has for us.

• Um… you know, again God is good. I went to church this past weekend and it just seems like God always puts in front of us what we need and lo and behold guess what the pastor had taught on, he taught on at the book of Ruth, but guess what he taught on, he taught, well in fact his title was called the redeeming faith in a grieving world, so you tell me that God isn’t putting in front of me something that I need, why did he call grief, why did he said grief, this were from his notes “Grief is a spiritual response to the experience of loss often accompanied by emotional and physical symptoms as well”, so when we look at the book of Ruth we see that, if you look in chapter 1, I mean there’s only 4 books, 4 chapters in the book of Ruth so in chapter 1 we see that grief is weaponized by the devil, he weaponizes grief to attack our soul in response to Naomi, and what he does is he uses her emotion and makes her become bitter to attack her soul by trying to tell her to isolate herself so he can prevent her healing because if she wants to send out her daughter in laws off and let her grieve herself and isolate herself and the devil that is what he is trying to do to use it, that’s what he tries to do to us and grieve. He uses that thought of like God is rejecting you, like, that he wants to use your emotional, your physical and your mental to try to defeat you spiritually. But then when we look at all those things that the devil was trying to do to Naomi and attack her, what we do see is this response in Ruth and how we should act in our own world today, the response to Ruth on how redeeming, that redeeming faith that our savior has and the outcome of grief is because that we have to invest in the ones that we haven’t lost. She wasn’t, she didn’t hold on to the one, she had lost a husband too but she was choosing to invest in the mother in law that she hadn’t lost. She had to trust, she loved God as for the other daughter in law chose to leave and go back to the other place and the other Gods and everything Ruth trusted and loved God and wanted to stay with Naomi, she trusted in God even when she didn’t understand her circumstances she wanted to live her life with righteousness, you see that in Ruth 3:10, and she, she was certain that God would redeem what was lost and he would provide with purpose and love and meaning to their life, and that how I closed out in chapter 4 and he did just that, so you can take all four of those books and not only see that’s the most beautiful love story of all but you can also take it in a totally different way about taking the grief of seeing what Satan tried to do to poor Naomi which is just what my heart needed I don’t know if anyone out there is dealing with grief today and that could be grief from, it that doesn’t even have to be grief from a loved one, it could be grief from, you might have lost your home, you might have lost your job, you might have lost a friend or a friendship, or your separated from your family, your, It could be a million things that you’re grieving but it doesn’t have to be. Go back to the, what we have, to our father, go back to the ones that are in our life, if you’re a strange from family members cling to the ones that are in your life, don’t worry about the ones that aren’t there, cling to the ones that God has in your life right now. If you have lost as I have cling to the ones that are in your life, if you’ve lost financial or you’ve lost your home, get to church, get to places that can help you and pray for you and help you look for places that can hopefully get you substantial help lead you in the direction. There’s hope in the book of Ruth, it is a beautiful love story but it’s so much more than that it does lead to our redeemer, to Jesus, it is the bloodline that leads to David that leads to Jesus, it is a beautiful love story of a daughter in law that stays with her mother in law, it is a beautiful love story of the Kingsman redeemer doing the right thing in taking on this family. But here we see that it’s so much more than that, it is just another treasure in the little book of Ruth that I never even noticed until Sunday and I went to church and God gave it to me and said this is why you’re missing your four thousand word podcast because this is what you needed to talk through today, you needed to talk about grief and have Satan will use your grief to create bitterness and isolation and to make you think that God’s rejecting you when he’s not, we haven’t last the ones that are with us right now we just need to trust the character God so we can live the righteous life because God will redeem us. God always has a plan for us, God always has a season for us, I don’t know what my season is right now, I don’t know what the next season is, I don’t want to know what next week will bring but I know this week was hard, this was a hard week and every day is hard when I wake up, but I just, we just gotta pray, we’ve got to stay with our father, he’s got a plan for us we are just in the flesh right now and the flesh has all kind of emotions and all kinds of things that can lead us astray when, as when the Satan wants us to, to dive into those feelings and instead of staying  where we need to be which is in God’s character, I need his love and basking and nap, so if you’re grieving today turn to the book of Ruth, look at it in a new way, look at it that, grief can be redeemed through our ultimate redeemer and that’s Jesus Christ, this is Tammy Becker I hope to see you or have you back listening next week with the almighty God and Gospel Girl podcast, I’ll see you next time, have a blessed day, bye.