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Writer's pictureJoni

DAy 28: Persevering Faith


ONCE UPON A TIME

there lived a woman named

RUTH

whose husband died

and whose father~in~law died.

What was the widow to do?

Marry another son of her husband's family,

as that was the custom.

But there were no more sons.

So what was the widow to do?

FOLLOW her mother-in-law, NAOMI,

to Judea.

But NAOMI did not want RUTH and her other daughter-in-law

to FOLLOW her~

“Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands

and to me. May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband”*

But RUTH had other plans

to

FOLLOW THE LEADER~

“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.

Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.

May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me”*

Oh the COMMITMENT to FOLLOW another.

The sheer DETERMINATION

to make up your mind

to do what your HEART is telling you to do,

even it means LEAVING all that you know,

because you want BETTER.

RUTH wanted NAOMI'S GOD!

So who was RUTH really FOLLOWING?

You SEE HIM in another,

because you SEE something different

that you can't quite put your finger on,

but you WANT HIM~

GOD!

You will go to great lengths to

FOLLOW HIM,

because you know HE WILL

take you to a BETTER place

from where you are right now.

Oh to be so determined to go the extra mile

that will change your life

FOREVER,

as you leave everything that you know behind

because you are now

FOLLOWING THE LEADER~

"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which

GOD has called me heavenward in CHRIST JESUS"

(Philippians 3:13-14).

The sheer determination and commitment to

FOLLOW JESUS,

because you know that

you can't do life without HIM

and no one is going to convince you otherwise~

"When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her,

she stopped urging her" *

UNMOVABLE to ever leave HIS side.

What happened to RUTH?

She married BOAZ.

And the rest is JESUS' story,

for they had a son named

OBED,

who was the father of

JESSE,

who was the father of

DAVID

and ...

then JESUS~

"The LORD GOD will give him the throne of his father David,

and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever;

his kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:30-33).

Hmm.

Did RUTH know that she was going to find LOVE again?

All she knew was that she WANTED to

KNOW

Naomi's GOD.

TO KNOW GOD

so deeply

that you would go to great length's

to FOLLOW HIM,

wherever HE LEADS you,

even when it feels as if you are staying in the same place,

because

JESUS

never leads you astray

because

HIS FATHER'S PLANS for you

are so

for GOD'S plans are so

much BETTER than your own plans.

Therefore,

have FAITH like RUTH~

“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 1:8-9;16-18).

and look up and never stop

PRESSING FORWARD

with

PERSEVERING FAITH

that

TRUST GODS

and

WAITS PATIENTLY

and

WATCHES EXPECTANTLY

because you

KNOW GOD so deeply

that

the ONLY WAY is to

FOLLOW HIM.

Therefore,

just tell

GOD,

"I WILL FOLLOW YOU,

for YOUR PLANS

are much BETTER than my own plans",

because

GOD is our

STORY CHANGER!

AMEN~

"WHATEVER YOUR PLAN IS"

(listen to the song below)


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