More about Ruth's Love

I wanted to look more into what Ruth told her mother-in-law Naomi. It almost seems poetic. Let's look at it like that is what it is. So, we go to Ruth 1:16 and 17

"But 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.

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.'"

When you think of true love, you think of words like these. Imploring words that are desperate to be near the object of devotion. Ruth wanted her mother to know that there was nothing that was going to come between them. She was willing to sacrifice her heritage to be with Naomi.

I often see Naomi as a sad and lonely woman. She lost everything dear to her and even asked to be called Mara, which means "bitter." Yet it was this woman that Ruth saw herself as inseparable. She was even willing to adopt a new religion.

Again, as I mentioned previously, we don't see Naomi trying to win her precious daughter-in-law to the True faith. Instead, it is Ruth that insists to the point of silencing Naomi's suggestions to return to her roots.

Also, as mentioned, this was God's plan and not Naomi's. We praise God for his Devine choice.

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