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Imagining a different future – Nov. 24, 2024

November 24, 2024

Scripture: John 18:33-37 and Ruth 3

Ruth forged a future where there wasn’t one. Her mother-in-law Naomi only sees a life of constriction, defined and closed. She sees no options, no future.

Ruth, on the other hand, is a future-oriented person. She consistently speaks in the future tense. While she might have told Naomi, “I accept everything that you say,” she still sees a possibility.

To use the future tense is to create possibility, to counter the facts. And that is where God is at work.

The reign of God is a woman directing her future when no future seems possible.

Raleigh Mennonite Church
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Imagining a different future - Nov. 24, 2024
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