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
This beautiful statement of loyalty makes its way into thousands of weddings each year. Incredibly, this wasn't originally a pledge of a bride or groom. Instead, it was the pledge of Ruth to her mother-in-law — some would call her an ex-mother-in-law since Ruth's husband, Naomi's son, had died, but Ruth never treats Naomi as an "ex" of any kind. God loves loyalty and bestows his blessing and favor when we are loyal to others.
In an era where people are thrown away as readily as paper plates and napkins, let's remember that loyalty is a quality that God not only loves, but it is also a quality that he defines for us in Jesus. So let's see loyalty to friends, to family, and to other followers of Jesus as a crucial commitment.
Question of Jesus
. On Understanding
Matthew 13:51
Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”
They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 15:17
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
Completion
Acts 14:26
From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Isaiah 66:22
“For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
Thought
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace…If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. – Amy Carmichael
[Message No: 7584]
This beautiful statement of loyalty makes its way into thousands of weddings each year. Incredibly, this wasn't originally a pledge of a bride or groom. Instead, it was the pledge of Ruth to her mother-in-law — some would call her an ex-mother-in-law since Ruth's husband, Naomi's son, had died, but Ruth never treats Naomi as an "ex" of any kind. God loves loyalty and bestows his blessing and favor when we are loyal to others.
In an era where people are thrown away as readily as paper plates and napkins, let's remember that loyalty is a quality that God not only loves, but it is also a quality that he defines for us in Jesus. So let's see loyalty to friends, to family, and to other followers of Jesus as a crucial commitment.
Question of Jesus
. On Understanding
Matthew 13:51
Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”
They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 15:17
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
Completion
Acts 14:26
From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Isaiah 66:22
“For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
Thought
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace…If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. – Amy Carmichael
[Message No: 7584]
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