So she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; Where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die— there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!” When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her. (Ruth 1:15-18, NRSV)
Have you ever met a person determined to do something and no matter what you would say to them they would not change their mind?
That is what Naomi encountered with Ruth. Ruth saw the hope in staying with Naomi, where Naomi only saw darkness. Naomi was so transfixed on the gloom and darkness that she could not see the light. When you see the light it displaces the darkness, but when you focus on the darkness the light seems to dissipate. See what I said there, the light seems to dissipate, not that the darkness overtakes the light because it can not do that. The light will always displace the darkness, but if you are focused on the gloom and darkness, the light will seem to go away. Hope is always there. Naomi sees the darkness, Ruth sees the light.
Where is your focus?
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