Verse of the Day: Ruth 1:16
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.
“Don’t ever leave us like that again.”
“We’ll go, but when you leave, we leave.”
Those are words my children said to me…in elementary and middle school…and I have never forgotten them. The first came after my 10-day mission trip to Lagos, Nigeria. The second came years later when I asked them to stay in Alabama for a couple of weeks while I worked. Needless to say, we went together, and we left together. They stayed aligned to me and to their word.
When I read Ruth 1:16, I hear my children.
Ruth was not going back. When Naomi tried to release her, tried to send her home to the family and the life she'd known before, Ruth wouldn't hear it. Naomi didn't know what her future held when she decided to return to her homeland. The situation looked uncertain at best. But Ruth looked at all of that uncertainty and made a declaration anyway.
Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. Your people are my people. Your God is my God.
You may see loyalty. I see alignment. Ruth made a conscious, costly, beautiful choice to connect herself to someone and to something greater than what she could see.
More than that, Ruth wasn't just choosing Naomi. She was choosing God. She was saying, in effect, "I align with you so completely that I choose your God over the life I used to live." She walked away from what was familiar and comfortable and walked straight into her purpose.
Can we make such a declaration today?
We align our lives, careers, relationships, and businesses around what we truly value, not what we say we value. But what we actually organize our days, our decisions, and our devotion around is what we value.
Over the past month, we've been walking alignment step by step. We released the grip and learned to trust without leaning on our own understanding. We reordered what we want and sought Him first. We let delight do its work until our hearts began to shift.
And now we arrive here…at the choice. Because alignment, at its core, is always a choice. Ruth chose. My children chose. The question is simply whether we will.
Evaluate what that means in your life and your relationship with God.
Where does He fit? Not where we wish He would fit. Where does He actually fit, right now, in the way you're building and moving and deciding?
That's the alignment question worth sitting with this week.
Live Inspired,
Yvette
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