LESSON: Shoes tell us much about people. We know from these shoes that they belong to three ladies. They are standing still and neither moving toward “reward” nor “ ruin.” They are closer to “ruin” than to “ reward.” As I look at these shoes I am re minded of three women in the Bible. Their names are Naomi, Ruth and Or- pah. They lived in the land of Moab near “ ruin.” There came a time when Naomi, who had lived in Israel’s land, heard that again there was food at home and she decided to return to her native land. We will take a pair of shoes out of the circle and face them toward the signpost marked “ reward.” When she turned toward the land of Israel, she had a drawing power for both Ruth and Orpah start ed with her. They had not gone far until Naomi advised each to return to the home of her own mother. Or pah took the advice and returned. We will turn the shoes representing her toward the land of “ruin.” Ruth was much wiser than her sister-in-law. Let us remember that she and Naomi moved toward the land of “ reward.” We will move the shoes further away from the land of “ ruin” and closer to the land of “re ward.” Both Naomi and Ruth were re warded for leaving Moab and going
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to the land of Israel. Of Naomi we read, “And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the L ord , which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath bom him” (Ruth 4:14,15). Ruth was greatly rewarded for the decision she made. She gleaned in the fields of Boaz, married him and became the mother of Obed who be came the grandfather of David. A part of Ruth’s reward was in becom ing an ancestress of Jesus Christ who was a descendant of David. God rewards those today who ac cept Christ and turn their feet away from the land of “m in.” END.
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