Nancy DeMas Walgamuth points out, every believer is tempted to return to a worldly way of living.

But once you have come into the kingdom of God, once you've come into the kingdom of light,

there's always something in your heart that will never be totally satisfied to go back and live in the world.

Because you don't belong there anymore.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of Seeking Him.

For January 22nd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

You know, independence can be good in a lot of ways, but when we try to gain independence from God,

free to do things our own way, it only causes a lot of trouble. How does God handle children who are inappropriately independent?

Well, let's find out in the series Ruth, the transforming power of redeeming love.

I think one of the most precious messages in all of God's word is the number of times where God says,

return to me. Return to me. Don't you love that message? Over and over again, when God's people

have gone away from Him, when they have forsaken Him, when they've followed after false gods,

when they've gone into the far country as prodigal

sons, God's message of mercy and grace is always, return to me.

Return to me.

And we're following a family, Limelech, the husband, Naomi the wife, two sons.

They leave their homeland in Bethlehem and travel 60 miles to Moab where they think

that they will be relieved of the pressures and the problems in their homeland.

You see, there's a famine back home, and they think they can get away from their circumstances.

So we saw them in the early verses of Ruth Chapter 1 running from their circumstances.

Then we saw that as soon as they left the place of obedience, that God began to create

circumstances with the goal of bringing this family back home.

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