[Songs in the Night - April 7]
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God. Ruth 1:16
ONE thought here is worthy of note; namely, the
positiveness with which Ruth made her decision.
It
was not a proposal to try for a time how it would be to
live in Judea.
It was a decision unto death.
In this
respect all true conversions are alike.
The Christian,
for instance, did not really become a Christian until he
made just such a definite, positive consecration of himself
to leave the world, its affairs, its loves, its hopes,
and ambitions, and to spend and be spent even unto
death, in the service of the Lord.
The value of positive
decision in respect to life we can hardly overestimate.
Thousands of lives are blighted because of
lack of decision.
Positiveness for God is the only condition
in which we can hope to "make our calling and
election sure." Z'15-23 R5614:4 (Hymn 303)