Devotion Booklets for Seasons of the Church Year Advent-Christmas Devotional - 2017 - single page | Page 43

I Am Bitter
Friday, January 5th
Ruther 1:13, 4:14-15
Naomi was bitter. The men in her life were supposed to provide for her future. Three graves marked the
painful present. While living in the land of Moab to scratch out an existence during a time of famine in
Israel, Naomi was forced to bury her husband and her two sons.
Since the land of Moab had not been kind to her, Naomi planned to go home—to Israel. She was not
completely alone. Her two daughters-in-law still lived in her home. But they were natives o