Why Settle (Ruth 3:1-18)

What do you do when you’re not sure what to do? When you’re stuck in a job you’d love to quit, but you feel like you can’t? When you’re stuck in a pattern of unhealthy behavior, and you want to stop, but you can’t seem to change or break out by yourself? When you’re always exhausted, always busy, never get a moment to breathe, always at the end of your rope, but you have no idea what to give up or put aside to catch a break, because everything you’re doing matters and someone might get hurt if you stop?

What do you do when there’s no easy answer, but you NEED an answer, a solution, a direction, SOMETHING, because where you are isn’t working anymore?

In Ruth chapter 3, we find Naomi and Ruth heading towards this point of “no good options.” They demonstrate two of the ways we can respond: settling for what we can get right now on our own, even if it’s not great, or courageous pursuit of what is good, even in the face of obstacles and uncertainty.