JEAN WATERS FUNERAL
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Mrs. Waters passed away on Friday, December 22, 2023, at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery. She was born on October 24, 1940, in Greenville, Alabama to Robert E. Williams and Mary Elizabeth Harrison Williams.
Jean loved so many things: her family; her Lord and Savior; cooking; decorating her home; planting rose gardens; growing ferns; crocheting hats, blankets and wash cloths; hummingbirds; watching wrestling and Auburn football, “War Eagle”; going to the beach; singing; and having a love for “sweets”. In earlier years, she was Ms. Preacher or Ms. Jean and served alongside her husband in his ministry, but most of all she loved working with the children’s ministry. In her later years, she was a member of Center Baptist Church in Lafayette, Alabama.
She is survived by her daughter, Dennie Waters Hale (Scott) of Montgomery, Alabama; son, Robert Waters (Paulette) of Commerce, Georgia; daughter, Lydia Waters (David Woodall) of Camp Hill, Alabama; grandchildren, Lee Hale (Chelsea), Raeanne Waters, Grace Waters Varner (Austin), Garrett Waters, and Mary Elizabeth Waters; great-grandchildren, Kingsley Eleanor Hale and Parker William Stanley; and loved adopted daughter, Christa Jennings.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years, Bro. Autry D. Waters; parents; sister, Melba Herrington; brother, John Robert Williams; and nephews, Jeremy Wade Williams, Ashton Hardy, Junior Waters, and Thomas J. McDonald.
She lived a full and blessed life and will be missed by those that knew and loved her.
THE STORY OF RUTH IS ONE THAT CAN EASILY BE OVERLOOKED IN THE BIBLE.
IN THE BOOK OF RUTH THERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL THAT TAKES THIRD PLACE IN THE LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE WHEN IT COMES TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK.
HER HUSBAND ELIMELECH MOVED THE FAMILY FROM THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM TO THE COUNTRY OF MOAB DUE TO A FAMINE.
FOR UNKNOWN REASONS ELIMELECH DIED
AFTER TAKING MOABITE WIVES BOTH OF HER SONS DIE AS WELL.
10 YEARS AFTER MOVING TO MOAB NAOMI HEADS BACK TO BETHLEHEM
SHE TELLS HER 2 DAUGHTERS-IN -LAW TO STAY AND BUILD THEIR LIFE BUT RUTH REFUSES TO DO SO AND GOES TO BETHLEHEM WITH NAOMI.
AS NAOMI ENTERS THE TOWN SHE THIS SETS THE STAGE FOR THE SCRIPTURE.
19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
20 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
21 I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”
NAOMI HAD LOST EVERYTHING AND WAS BITTER. BUT GOD HAD OTHER PLANS.
BOAZ LOOKED FAVORABLY ON RUTH THE DAUGHTER IN LAW OF NAOMI AND ACCEPTED THE POSITION AS THE KINSMAN REDEEMER
THE KINSMAN REDEEMER NOT ONLY RESTORED RUTH BUT HE ALSO RESTORED NAOMI THROUGH THEIR SON OBED
14 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!
15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
THIS STORY IS A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF THE REDEEMING POWER OF JESUS CHRIST
LIKE NAOMI WE ARE ALL LOST
WE STRUGGLE TO FIND OUR PATH OR MEANING
JESUS TELLS US ON
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
PAUL TELLS US IN
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
IN THE BOOK OF LUKE HE RECORDS ZECHARIAH SAYING
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.