Ruth | When God Seems Distant (Ruth 1) | John Baker

What do you do when God seems distant and the story of your life feels empty, uncertain, or unfinished? Ruth 1 reminds us that God’s apparent silence is not His absence. Through devastating loss, Ruth’s costly faithfulness, and Naomi’s despair, we see a God whose steadfast love is at work through ordinary people and circumstances. What Naomi could only see as emptiness, God was already weaving into a story of redemption that would ultimately lead to Jesus. The same God who was faithful to Ruth and Naomi is still trustworthy when we can't see what He's doing.