Leaving It All Behind
Ruth 1:14-18 "Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. And she said, 'Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.' But Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die; and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.' When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her." Ruth left everything to stay with her mother-in-law. She left her land, her family and everything that she knew. She was DETERMINED to stay with her mother-in-law. This is the attitude that Christ is looking for in His people today. Many want to be "saved" and eventually go to heaven--