Ruth 1:16-1- 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 anything but death separates you and me.”

The three women in this story teach us a lesson about those who, having put their hand to the plow, look back, and those who don’t. Naomi was of the people of Israel, a people separated by God to accomplish His project of redemption. She had been forced to go out of her country with her husband and two sons because of the famine in the land. Famine in Israel was typically God’s way to bring back to Him the people, when they started to disobey.

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