God does not give you what you want but what you need
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The Book of Ruth teaches us how to overcome loss and tragedy in life. It shows us that pain and suffering can be positive if we see it through the lens of God's Word and relate to it in a biblical and spiritual way. The narrative begins with a tragic scene of Naomi losing her husband and two children in a foreign land. Naomi urges her daughters-in-law to return to their families, but Ruth chooses to stay with her and pledges her loyalty to Naomi. The story teaches us the importance of nobility and generosity, and reminds us that suffering can happen even when we are in the center of God's will.
The story of Ruth and Naomi shows that God can use tragedy and loss to bring about His will and purpose. They leave Moab, a pagan land, and return to Bethlehem, the place of miracles and spiritual growth. Ruth becomes the great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of Jesus, showing that God can use anyone regardless of their background or past. How we deal with pain and loss determines what happens in the end, and it's important to insert God into the midst of our suffering and trust in His plan. Even if we don't understand why we go through certain trials, we can submit to His will and bless Him in the midst of it.
Ruth's perspective on suffering as a punishment from God is wrong. It's important to include God in our struggles and see them in the light of His Word and purpose. Prayer is important as it changes our perspective and allows us to see things with the mind and eyes of Christ. Suffering can be used for good, and it's important to keep God at the center of our narrative and not lower our theology because of pain and loss. We need to accept that God writes sublime texts in our lives and prepare ourselves to be great warriors of God. Depression, anxiety, resentment, and bitterness should be banished from our lives, and we need to look towards God's glorious and bright future. We should also open the opportunity for someone to give their life to Jesus Christ if they feel called to do so.
The story of Ruth and Naomi shows that God can use tragedy and loss to bring about His will and purpose. They leave Moab, a pagan land, and return to Bethlehem, the place of miracles and spiritual growth. Ruth becomes the great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of Jesus, showing that God can use anyone regardless of their background or past. How we deal with pain and loss determines what happens in the end, and it's important to insert God into the midst of our suffering and trust in His plan. Even if we don't understand why we go through certain trials, we can submit to His will and bless Him in the midst of it.
Ruth's perspective on suffering as a punishment from God is wrong. It's important to include God in our struggles and see them in the light of His Word and purpose. Prayer is important as it changes our perspective and allows us to see things with the mind and eyes of Christ. Suffering can be used for good, and it's important to keep God at the center of our narrative and not lower our theology because of pain and loss. We need to accept that God writes sublime texts in our lives and prepare ourselves to be great warriors of God. Depression, anxiety, resentment, and bitterness should be banished from our lives, and we need to look towards God's glorious and bright future. We should also open the opportunity for someone to give their life to Jesus Christ if they feel called to do so.
I have preached about the Book of Ruth and about some principles that this Book contains, and I want to do it now in the light of the subject that we have been dealing with, and I believe that if God does not indicate otherwise, it will be the second and last sermon within this larger series about pain, about trials and suffering, and how we can relate to the pain and suffering that is part of this world and part of the experience of God's children, in a positive way; seeing it the right way from the right perspective, facing the pain, facing the tragedies, the losses, the setbacks, the failures of life in a biblical way, in a spiritual way understanding that it is something that is part of the human experience and that God many times uses setbacks, failures, life's sufferings, life's deserts to bless us and improve us, and strengthen us, and take us to another level of quality of life.
It is even God's instrument so that we can be truly happy in the future. If we receive trial and pain in a biblically correct way, if we see it through the eyes of God and His Word, if we relate to the deserts of life in a correct way, even pain can be an instrument for Our future happiness can be an instrument to be lighter at the end of the process, remembering the Word of the Apostle Paul, right? that we get rid of sin and the weight that besieges us so that we can run lightly the race of faith that is the race of life.
It is even God's instrument so that we can be truly happy in the future. If we receive trial and pain in a biblically correct way, if we see it through the eyes of God and His Word, if we relate to the deserts of life in a correct way, even pain can be an instrument for Our future happiness can be an instrument to be lighter at the end of the process, remembering the Word of the Apostle Paul, right? that we get rid of sin and the weight that besieges us so that we can run lightly the race of faith that is the race of life.
