What God Has Done | Daily Devotional 1660

You're listening to my morning devotional podcast, episode 1660. Today's sevo is called What God Has Done.

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Good morning, everybody, and happy Friday. Welcome back to My Morning Devotional Podcast. My name is Rochelle Alesi, and I get the privilege of closing week two out. Um, this week was fun. All of us came in and um we played a part in sharing week two, and I'm really happy that we got to do that because I loved opening up last week, and I really hope that this study of Ruth is blessing you. And so please stay with us this month because we're gonna continue it for the entire month. So it's gonna be amazing. And so before we get into this, I want to remind you that Stephanie did an interview with Layla, and guys, it was such an amazing interview. She shared her faith, her walk with the Lord, and just it's such a beautiful testimony. So I want to encourage you guys to go back and to listen to it. It's actually available if you are one of our Buy Me a Coffee members, so make sure you also check that out. And um, I hope that you join even deeper into what we're doing on a monthly and weekly basis here on my morning devo. But let's get to reading. I'm gonna be reading Ruth 19 through 23, and I I love the end of this, and um, I can't wait to read it. But it says this, and her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you. So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I work today is Boaz. And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead. Naomi also said to her, The man is a close relative of ours, and our redeemers. And Ruth the Moabite said, Besides, he said to me, You shall keep close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest. And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young men, lest in another field you may be assaulted. So she kept close to the young woman of Boas, gleaning unto the end of the barley and wheat harvest, and she lived with her mother-in-law. What we see in these few verses is that Naomi started to recognize that they were not forsaken. Last weekend and through all of this, we've seen that she had that struggle of really feeling like the Lord had forgotten about them. But here you start to see even a change of heart and what the way that she's speaking, she's saying, Blessed be the man who's taking care of you today, because she started to see the Lord's hand at work in their life. And what we can take from this story today is that sometimes perspective has to change before circumstances do. And we see this with Naomi here. Even the way that she was speaking and seeing things, her perspective started to change. And that's what allowed her circumstances to move forward as well. And so I encourage you guys, please, please, please. I know this is a short one, but please stay with us because we are going to keep seeing through all of this the blessing of God. The plans that God had were greater than Naomi could ever imagine. But in this moment, she had said, Hey, I'm going to acknowledge the good things. I'm going to change my perspective. I'm going to see how this was better for Ruth because she stayed safe. I'm going to say, Blessed be this man who's taking care of us, the kindness we see the Lord in all of this. And even though it was small little steps or small things that didn't seem huge at the time, we are going to see how this was all part of God's plan and how they end up being blessed and how we get to see the Lord's redemption in all of this. So just remember, sometimes perspective has to change before our circumstances do. So let's pray. Dear Father God, thank you so much for this beautiful story. And I just pray, Lord, that you will start to help us change our perspective, that we would be open to saying, I might not be seeing this right. And that we choose to see things with your spirit eyes, Father, that we choose to listen with our spirit ears, so we can see your hand our work in our lives, Father. And we thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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