EVERY DAY, CHRISTIANS distinguish themselves from the world by the choices they make…

The world turns from opportunities to come to God and goes back to family and idols (cf. Ruth 1:14-15.)  Often, with tears, men have rejected the truth of God and have turned away because of family ties, saying, “If I do what the Bible says, I will have to leave the religion of my parents and that would mean I am saying they are/were lost.  I just can’t do that.” 

The truth of the matter is that one’s acceptance or rejection of God’s Word has no bearing upon the fate of his departed loved ones. 

Others refuse opportunities and turn away from God, again, with tears, because some idol god has their hearts.  What if Orpah had chosen to go with Naomi as Ruth did?  Bobby Liddell

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

–Mike Benson