Naomi and Ruth’s undoing eventually became the circumstances for their Hallelujah. Life, love and abundance came to them but not before death, dislocation and hunger. We love our hallelujahs but not our undoings. But remember, God is present in both. And God deserves to be worshipped in both seasons. I wonder can you worship God in your undoing? Were it not for our undoings, we wouldn’t know what it means to believe in God beyond the doings, and our life with God would be small and selfish. What gets tricky in all of this is knowing where to stand spiritually in the undoing season. How not to pray for the maintenance of things that God wants to strip away? How not to fight for something that God wants to replace? We are presently in an undoing season in the world, our country and the Church. Simultaneously we’re in an emerging season. Tears of loss and tears of joy run down the same cheeks minutes apart. In this kind of a season, bracing ourselves can only be a short-term strategy. Too much bracing and we become numb and wooden. Only increased sensitivity to God and God’s timeless purposes is the way forward. Only openness in the face of undoing will give us a “hope and a future.” Just like Naomi, Just like Ruth.
Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Jeremiah 29:11
For People with Bishop Rob Wright
The podcast expands on Bishop’s For Faith devotional, drawing inspiration from the life of Jesus to answer 21st-century questions.