Shavuot and Waiting
Waiting… Shavuot… Pentecost… What do these things have in common? What is Shavuot? Shavuot is the culmination of the “Feast of Weeks” that happens after Passover. Most believers know this as Pentecost. It really was a Jewish celebration called Shavu’ot. Exodus 34:22 “Observe the festival of Shavu‘ot with the first-gathered produce of the wheat harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year. The Israelites celebrated Passover, than began to count 7 weeks plus
Don't press me to leave you...
I realized this morning that as I am putting my devotional book together I have not chosen a verse from the book of Ruth. HOW CRAZY, because Ruth is one of my favorite books in the Bible! Here is the most popular verse from this book: Ruth 1:16 But Rut said, “Don’t press me to leave you and stop following you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. (CJB) (Rut is the Hebrew version of Ruth)
