Ruth Is Rescued
Ruth wiggled her toes in the plush carpet. She had woken up in her mother’s room. The light breeze came in through the opened window. The breeze carried the salty smell of the ocean. Ruth’s family lived in a modest beach house. Her parents had retired and had decided to live right on the coastline.
Last night had been a blur. After Jeremiah, Ruth’s father, had witnessed the abuse Ruth was enduring, Jeremiah had taken her daughter and Deborah back home with him to safety. He couldn’t forsake them in the hands of a broken man.
Being in her father’s house took away her fear and worries of being hurt. She couldn’t remember when was the last time she felt true peace and safety. Ruth knew that Phillip couldn’t hurt her in her father’s house.
She couldn’t wait to start her day and take a walk in the beach and get her feet in the sand. She had much to tell God. She had doubted Him completely. Ruth had prayed for God to deliver her from the nightmare she was living and at the very end He had come through for her and Deborah.
At mid-morning, she left her daughter with her mother and took that much-needed walk on the beach. She took a deep breath allowing the ocean smell to freshen her soul. She knelt right in front of the waves, allowing them to splash her and there she spoke to God.
She thanked Him for rescuing her. Ruth knew she would have to face Phillip again. She had many decisions to deal with but for today she didn’t need to worry. This was her moment to dwell in the peace and safety she felt in God.
She took her hurt, her brokenness and surrendered it all to Christ. She surrendered to the One who had died for her and had rescued her from living a broken life.
She stood up with renewed strength. She would need it to face the days ahead. One thing she acknowledged, was that this moment was the beginning of a new start. She wouldn’t return to that life. A life that almost killed her. She had felt the hopelessness in her marriage; this hopelessness, that had pushed her to believe she was better off not existing.
Kneeling there in the waves, she came to understand that God had a greater purpose for her life. She would embrace His love and His healing, for only then she would be complete.