Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God (Ruth 1:16)
This statement from Ruth is a commitment, not only to her mother-in-law, but to the God of Israel. Although Ruth grew up as a Moabite in an idolatrous society, she claims that, from now on, she will have only the one true God as her God and is forsaking her emotional, sentimental or religious attachments. Let us ask ourselves if our affections and attention are still splintered in a hundred(if not a thousand) different directions, by every thing around us, that unchecked appetite, the attraction of multifarious luxuries, the bickering and squabble on account of “wants” and not “needs”, the peer pressure, the fear of what others will think? Have you made a hard and fast commitment to God?
Let us be emboldened by Ruth's courageous example to tell all around us and not be dissuaded from our decisions in Christ, the choice you have made and the course that we have set for following hard after God.
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