In this episode of the TBS Podcast, the question is raised Who Are You When It's Hard? In the Book of Ruth, Naomi and her family went through a lot of difficult stuff. First, they had to move to a completely different place, where the culture was totally different. (Culture = what people from a certain place say, think, do, and believe.) They must have felt like outsiders. Elimelech’s name means “God is king,” which shows us his family believed in and worshipped the one true God. Moab was a place where the people believed in and worshipped false gods. Everything Moabites did was centered around their beliefs. It would have been hard to live in a place where people said and did things that were against what Elimelech and his family believed.
