Going with God

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In The Courier, a film inspired by true events, the main character Greville is confronted with a difficult decision. He learns that a close friend is going to be arrested and will likely face a grueling imprisonment. Greville can save himself from the same fate if he flees the country immediately and denies association with his friend. Moved with compassion, Greville loyally refuses to leave and is imprisoned suffering the same agony as his friend. Neither man betrays the other. In the end he’s released a broken, but true and faithful companion.

Naomi needed a friend like that. When her husband and sons died, Naomi faced destitution and a long journey. Naomi told her widowed daughter-in-law Ruth to remain in Moab and find a new life for herself (Ruth 1:8–9). Ruth responded, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go” (v. 16). Ruth loyally accompanied Naomi to a foreign land and helped provide for their family. Ruth’s faithfulness transformed their broken family into an incredible legacy. Much later, her great-great-grandson David would become king of Israel and was called a man after God’s own heart.

Facing suffering with others is daunting. But if we surrender our own will and seek God’s strength, He enables us to love people in extraordinary ways. In His power, we can choose to say, “Where you go, I will go.”

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0:00.0	Where you go, I will go. And where you stay, I will stay.
0:06.0	Ruth, chapter 1, verse 16.
0:10.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:15.0	Our reading titled, Going with God, was written by Karen Pimpimpo and read by Tony Collier.
0:23.6	Ruth chapter 1, verse 6 through 17.
0:29.3	When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food
0:34.2	for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.
0:39.6	With her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the
0:44.8	road that would take them back to the land of Judah. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law,
0:51.6	Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the Lord show
0:56.7	you kindness as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. May the Lord grant that
1:02.5	each of you will find rest in the home of another husband. Then she kissed them goodbye, and they
1:08.8	wept aloud and said to her,
1:11.3	We will go back with you to your people.
1:14.3	But Naomi said, return home, my daughters.
1:17.8	Why would you come with me?
1:19.4	Am I going to have any more sons who could become your husbands?
1:23.3	Return home, my daughters.
1:25.2	I am too old to have another husband.
1:29.4	Even if I thought there was still hope for me, even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons, would you wait until they
1:34.9	grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you,
1:42.8	because the Lord's hand has turned against me.
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