For Your Inspiration
First You Make Your Choices
—Then Your Choices Make You
by Eturuvie Erebor
E
very day we make choices whether we
are aware of it or not and the choices
we make have the power to make or
unmake us depending on if they are right or
wrong choices. My question to you is what
choices are you making? Today, you are a sum
of the choices you made yesterday and tomorrow you will be a sum of the choices you make
today.
Ruth was a woman who benefitted
greatly from the choice she made. She was a
young woman from the land of Moab and the
daughter-in-law of Naomi, an Israelite woman.
Both women met in the land of Moab where
Naomi sojourned with her husband and two
sons; one of the sons married Ruth and the
other married Orpah another Moabite woman
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but had no children before their demise. Prior
to the death of her sons Naomi had lost her
own husband and so she was widowed and
childless and decided at that point to return
to her own land and people. Ruth had two
options at this stage, she could return to her
own people, remarry and get on with her life
as she had no obligation towards her former mother-in-law or she could go with the
woman and take care of her as a daughter
seeing she was widowed and childless. She
made a choice to go with her mother-in-law
and that choice eventually made her one of
the women in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
Upon arrival in Naomi’s homeland, Bethlehem,
Ruth met a wealthy man, a relative of Naomi’s
who became her husband and they had a child