trustWednesday, August 19
Where You Go
Scripture
"But Ruth replied, 'Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.'"
— Ruth 1:16
What it means
Before Ruth said this, there had been three funerals in Naomi's family. Naomi had lost her husband and both sons, and she told her two daughters in law to go home, because staying with a widow who had no sons meant poverty. One left, which was sensible and nobody blames her. Ruth stayed, and she was a Moabite, binding herself to a God she had not grown up with.