DCLM Higher Everyday 16 December 2025 — Ruth’s Godly Resolve
DCLM Higher Everyday 16 December 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Ruth’s Godly Resolve
Topic: Ruth’s Godly Resolve
Text: Ruth 1:12-18
12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
14And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
15And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
16And 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 my God:
17Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
18When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Key Verse: “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 my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me” (Ruth 1:16-17).
Message
The phrase ‘crossing the Rubicon’ is an idiom that means ‘passing a point of no return’. Its meaning comes from the allusion to the crossing of the River Rubicon by Julius Caesar in about January 49 BC, according to Wikipedia. In today’s text, Ruth could return to her idolatrous Moabitish gods like Orpah, her partner, did. But she fell in love with Naomi and chose to serve the true and only God of Israel despite the apparent uncertainties around the person of her poor widow and mother-in-law. Naomi’s entreaties to discourage her were germane, but her personal resolve was more potent.
Also Read: DCLM Higher Everyday 15 December 2025 – Moses’s Selfless Mediation
Ruth’s tenacity is undoubtedly a challenge to many young people today whose service and relationship with the Lord are based on favourable circumstances. They are good-weather Christians. They abandon God for the fleeting things of this world, like the mixed multitude in Israel’s congregation in their wilderness journey. Following Jesus when close friends desert us takes personal persuasion and conviction. Beyond salvation, seeking God for sanctification experience strengthens your resolve and empowers you to continue until you meet Christ.
Quote: Her resolve was more potent
Challenge: Have you decided to follow Jesus to the end?
Prayer for today: Lord, I ask for grace to follow you to the end.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
