A Great Love Story: Ruth’s And Ours | Part 2 – Finding (and keeping) the Love of Your Life!

Loving Choice #1: Get Relationally !

Ruth 1:16-17 (NLT)

“Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. ¹⁷ … May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”

Loving Choice #2: Pay Relational !

Ruth 2:5-7 (NLT)

Boaz asked his foreman, “Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?”

⁶ And the foreman replied, “She is the young woman from Moab who came back with Naomi. ⁷ She asked me this morning if she could gather grain behind the harvesters. She has been hard at work ever since, except for a few minutes’ rest in the shelter.”

Matthew 1:5 (NLT)

Salmon was the father of Boaz (whose mother was Rahab).

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NLT)

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Recommended Book:

Falling in Love for All the Right Reasons: How to Find Your Soul Mate

Dr. Neil Clark Warren

Loving Choice #3: Take Relational !

Ruth 3:2 (MSG) – “It’s time to make our move!”

Ruth 3:3 (MSG)

“Take a bath. Put on some perfume. Get all dressed up and go to the threshing floor. But don’t let Boaz know you’re there until the party is well under way and he’s had plenty of food and drink. When you see him slipping off to sleep, watch where he lies down and then go there. Lie at his feet to let him know that you are available to him for marriage. Then wait and see what he says. He’ll tell you what to do.”

Recommended Book:

How To Get A Date Worth Keeping — Dr. Henry Cloud

Loving Choice #4: Prioritize Spiritual !

2 Corinthians 6:14 (MSG)
Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war.