Women's Empowerment — a figure standing on a ridge in full daylight, looking out over open country

Ruth redeemedRuth 3Length: Long

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • What does Boaz do at the gate, and where does the passage say this family line ends up?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • Whom have you written off as being outside the story God is telling?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • What will you do this week for someone who has no one to speak for them?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who could you tell that a Moabite widow is in Jesus' family tree?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

Father, a foreign widow ended up in the line of the king and of Jesus, and none of it was accidental. Do that kind of work with the people this world overlooks.