What's it all about?

I read a story in the Bible about a couple called Elimelech and Naomi. They had two little boys and lived a long time ago in a country called Israel. Israel was called the promised land because God had led the Israelites there to become a great nation, and to be His special people under His rule.
But there was a great famine in the land, and Elimelech and Naomi decided to emigrate to the neighbouring country of Moab. It was sad that they had to leave Israel, to leave God’s people and go to a country which did not know God. They had to leave their parents too. But it was a good decision. They had their two boys and their future to consider.
The bible doesn’t say it, but they must have had a good life there. They boys grew up and married there. But then I read that both Elimelech and his sons died. Naomi decided to go home to Israel. Ruth, her daughter-in-law went with her.
Such a tragic story. Elimelech’s parents never saw their son or grandchildren again. Naomi went home a sad, bitter widow.
Back in Israel again, Naomi and Ruth survived by gleaning corn. Ruth met the rich owner of a field where she was gleaning, and they were married. So the story ends happily enough.
I wondered at the point of it all.
It turns out that later Ruth became the grandmother of David, who was God’s chosen king for Israel. From the line of David, Jesus, the saviour of the world was born.
God, who knows and plans everything, had planned to use a young, Maobite girl to be the progenitor of His Christ, and so he allowed Elimelech and Naomi to emigrate to Moab.
My son Duane was a pastor in our church here in Durban. He has left God’s people and God’s place to go to Australia, where the people do not know God. It was a good decision, he had to consider the future of his children. I know that God has a plan for that family too.