🙏 Costly Obedience Is Never a Loss | Ruth 4 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes 1. 🙏 Quiet Time Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to show you where you may be obeying Him only when it feels safe, easy, or beneficial. 2. 📅 May 7, 2026 Today’s passage reminds us: Obedience to God may look costly, but it is always our greatest gain. 3. ✝️ Ruth 4:1-6 Boaz went to the city gate, gathered the elders, and gave the nearer redeemer the first opportunity to redeem the land that belonged to Elimelech’s family. At first, the redeemer agreed to buy the land, but when Boaz explained that redeeming it also meant taking Ruth the Moabite to preserve the dead man’s name and inheritance, he refused. Fearing that it would impair his own inheritance, the redeemer gave his right of redemption to Boaz. 4. 📖 Key Verse “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it” (v. 6b). 5. 📝 Reflection In today’s Quiet Time passage, two men appear. Both were willing to buy Naomi’s land, bu...