Want To Be More Loved? Then Be More Loving

Good Morning!! If you question the reactions you get from those close to you,...ask what do they see in you? Naomi must have been a loving person. Both of her widowed daughters-in-law wept at the thought of leaving her. Orpah went back to her own family,...but only after Naomi insisted. Ruth refused to leave, crying, "....where you go I will go and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God" (v. 16b). What did they see in Naomi, that caused them to trust, and love her so?

And they said to her, "No, we will return with you to your people."—Ruth 1:10 (ESV)

Perhaps it was the unselfish caring that Naomi showed to them, first. Instead of complaining over her own loss,...she was thinking of what was best for them. I hope that our children, grand-children, and their mates will find those same qualities in us. My friend Dorthy Cherry once told me; "Nobody cares how much you know,...until they know how much you care." Now is the perfect time, to do something different. Be that person that others can't help but to love,...in all that you do, show the Jesus in you.

"JOY " is spelled; "J " for Jesus, "O " for others, and "Y " for "yourself."
When this is the order of our priorities, we’ll have JOY.

Our Father in Heaven, help us see the needs of others,...and respond to them, with love. Amen.

"The prudent see danger and take refuge,...but the simple keep going and pay the penalty."