“But Ruth said: ‘Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following 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 I will be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.’” (Ruth 1:16, 17)

•. Naomi pressed upon Ruth to also return.

Naomi would not have her enter Bethlehem-Judah against her own personal, free choice. The Lord Jesus, Himself, threw up obstacles in the way of some who would follow Him. To one, He said: “‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head’” (Luke 9:58).

•. Ruth said: “Wherever you go, I will go.”

Will we look up into the face of our Lord, today, and say as much?

Remember, that if we seek our own will and walk in our own way, we will know only sighs and sorrows. Let our consecration be complete. If we walk with Him, He will walk with us.

•. Ruth said: “Wherever you lodge, I will lodge.”

Could there be any better place for us than to lodge with Him? His promise is still true, “‘We will come to him and make Our home with him’” (John 14:23).

•. Ruth said: “Your people shall be my people.”

When Ruth chise Naomi, she also chose Naomi’s people. When we choose God we also choose the people of God. “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body” (1 Corinthians 12:13). We are members one of another. We have one Father; one Lord; one Word; one Faith; one Baptism.

• Ruth said: “Your God [shall be] my God.”

When Ruth cast her lot with Naomi she purposefully cast her lot with Naomi’s God. If we enter into spiritual relationships with the people of God, we must of necessity enter into relationship with God Himself.

“Blest be the tie that binds

Our hearts in Christian love.”

Guard your heart. Teach your children. Watch and pray.