Ruth – How God Uses Faithfulness In The Time of Crisis Ruth 1:1-18

“In the Time of Crisis, God uses the faithfulness of unexpected heroes to prepare for His deliverance in the future!”

In the time of crisis, human leaders want to whip us into a frenzy to gain our complete allegiance and obedience. They focus us on the crisis at hand relentlessly and make us think that immediate submission to them is the only thing that will let one survive the crisis. Ordinary measures – they say are useless, hopeless! Trust me completely they say! Extraordinary measures are required! Do whatever I say – and if the crisis strikes us as truly bad, we will do whatever they say. That’s the danger of propaganda.

What will YOU do in the Time of Crisis?

How odd that all too often in the time of crisis we trust ourselves to human leaders and what THEY say but do we trust ourselves absolutely to what GOD says?

The book of Ruth tells the story of a time of crisis in the life of God’s people. It was set in the time of the history recorded in the Book of Judges. It’s about a once faithful nation going to “hell in a handbasket” as the saying goes.

Judges tells a story about a nation that upon entering the Land was faithful and trusting in the Lord. But as the book progresses God demonstrates His faithfulness by delivering the people, but as tou keep reading each successive Judge begins to look less like Moses and Joshua and more like a cross between the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow without a Brain, and the Tin Woodsman without a heart.

By the end of Judges you’ll find that the incident of the Levite and his concubine in Judges 19 depicts the nation become as base and depraved as the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed by God for their sin.

That’s how bad the nation had become. That’s how bad the church of the day had come.

If you could only read one book of the Bible – Judges – and didn’t know the “rest of the story”, you’d think “Those people are going down the drain… there’s no coming back!”

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