Title: Ruth's Determination
Title: Ruth's Determination (Ruth 1:15-18)
John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost in Evangelism Message, worked as Cromwell's secretary when he was young. At that time, his eyesight began to deteriorate, and at the age of 44 he became completely blind and became blind. However, Milton, a devout man of faith, did not disappoint or complain about it. Rather, I tried to go further before God to find out what God's will was, and Milton made this confession. “Thank you for blinding my fleshly eyes and opening the spiritual eyes that only You can see. What a great confession of faith is this? This is a confession that can only be made by those who accept God's will and providence.
Through this text, I hope that you will realize the will and providence of God more and more and become a determined believer like Ruth.
Ruth's determination is the content of her determination to realize God's will and providence.
In fact, Ruth was in a very difficult situation.
Elimelech's family came to Moab from Bethlehem to escape a famine. His wife's name was Naomi. His two sons were Marlon and Kirill. After Elimelech died, his two sons married a Moabite woman, and Marlon got Orpah, and Chilol got Ruth. About 10 years ago After her two husbands died, she was left with her mother, Naomi, and her two sons, Orpah and Ruth. They were on their way back to the land of Judah.
8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "You each go back to your mother's house." 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth followed her.
Text: 15 And Naomi said, Behold, your brother-in-law returns to his people and to his gods; you must also return with your brother-in-law.
16 Ruth said to her, "Do not compel me to leave you and not follow you and return. Where you go I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God." will you be
17 In the place where you die I will die and be buried there. If I leave my mother except to die, I want the Lord to punish me and give me more." and stopped talking to him.
Isn't Ruth's decision a decision of great faith?
Where you die, I will also die and be buried there. If I leave you other than to die, I want the Lord to punish me and give me more. Paul's confession: Romans 14:8 If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord.
Paul was also beheaded and martyred in a Roman prison for this decision. The determination of faith is the determination that leads to martyrdom.
If you look at the resolution of faith, you can see how faithful David is.
David admires the faithfulness of the three warriors, and his determination to be loyal to Jehovah is even greater.
David is determined
Psalm 16:2 I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord, and there is no good for me except you." 4 Those who offer gifts to other gods will suffer more. This is the confession that I will only serve the Lord no matter what circumstances come to me.
Joshua 24:14 So now, fear the LORD, and serve him with integrity and truth. Put away the gods that your ancestors worshiped beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the LORD only. Choose today whom you will serve, whether they are the gods who served on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites in the land in which you live. I will not serve
17 For the LORD our God Himself brought us and our ancestors up out of the land of slavery in the land of Egypt, and performed those great wonders before our eyes, and protected us from all the ways we walked and from all the peoples through which we passed. 18 And the LORD has driven out before us all the peoples and the Amorites who inhabited the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God. This is the decision of the people of Israel.
I hope that our decision to serve only God becomes our decision. Ruth's determination was to serve only the Lord and was filial.