Ruth 1:11-18, “Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? … Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” 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 Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.”

You have to recognize your past and say “I want something better, there has to be something more!”

She refused to return to her past. She was saying to Naomi, “I’m going where I’ve never been to create something I’ve never had… because in knowing you, Naomi, I’ve come to love you and you God.”

Many people are where Ruth was in that moment. They each have a past they wish they could forget. You cannot enter your tomorrow as long as you hold on to your past, you must let it go!

Questions:

1. Have you recognized your past is not who you are?

2. How has your environment affected you?

3. Do you know there is greatness in you?

4. Where do you want to go? What is something “better”?