TOPIC : THE PRINCIPLES OF HONOUR
TEXT : RUTH 1:14-17
[14]Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [good-bye], but Ruth clung to her.
[15]And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.
[16]And Ruth said, Urge me not to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God.
[17]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 me from you.
Orpah wept, kissed Naomi, walked away out of her life and shut the door of all the sweet memories.
How often do we experience such in life.
Ruth clung to her and refused to say good bye.
I often listen to the heart breaking stories of missionaries and their wives.
How they invest their lives in people and their dreams only to harvest the wind.
Naomi had lost hope in her life and all possibilities of recovery.
She could only see a bleak future and didn't want anybody to share in her misfortune but Ruth held on.
Her faith was rewarded by her being grafted in the genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ, what a super reward.
She declared, " where you die, I will die", which means she was not expecting and easy ride.
Christian brethren are expected to operate with this kind of faith and loyalty.
Those who can't die for a course can't live for a course.
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
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For further reading, 2 Chronicles 25, 26.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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