Nancy DeMas Walgamuth is here with a hopeful reminder.

That when I come back to God as an empty, needy, broken sinner,

taking responsibility for my own life, for my own choices,

that then I become a candidate for God's gracious provision.

For the provision of the one who has the right to redeem everything.

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

For January 25th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music You know, companies spend millions of dollars telling us that their products will provide us with convenience, comfort. The problem is convenience and comfort often will keep you from doing what you need to do.

Today, we'll hear about a woman who chose commitment over comfort.

We're in a series called Ruth, The Transforming Power of Redeeming Love.

Now, if you missed any of the episodes so far, you can listen on the Revive Our Hearts app or find the audio and transcripts at revive our hearts.com.

Here's Nancy with a recap.

We're looking in Ruth, chapter one, beginning in verse 8.

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, go back, each of you to your mother's home.

The girl said to her in verse 10, we are going to stay with you and go back with you to your people. Verse 11, Naomi said, no, stay here. There's no way that if you go back with me to Bethlehem, I'm abbreviating here, there's no way that you will ever have a future or a hope. And then verse 14 tells us that Orba kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. Verse 15, Look, said Naomi, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her. But Ruth replied, with these immortal words, 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 anything but death

separates you and me.

Now I see in Ruth's statement there a beautiful picture of what it means to live a life

under the Lordship of Christ.

And as I look at the options that Ruth faced and the options that her sister-in-law

faced, I see that there are really two pathways in life.

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