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John Currid looks at key themes within the book: the cost of obedience, the sovereignty of God, faithful living and redemption. The background is laid out—in the time of the Judges—as a time of degeneracy in the history of Israel. The focus then moves to one family within Israel, their move to Moab, the sadness there, the return home and God’s wonderful working to turn bitterness into joy. The...

to turn and lean upon God, who is the only source of true satisfaction and serenity. Thomas Watson explains this purpose of suffering as follows: In prosperity the heart is apt to be divided (Hos. 10:2). The heart cleaves partly to God, and partly to the world.… God draws and the world draws. Now God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity … when God sets our worldly comforts on fire, then we run to Him, and make our peace with him.2
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