Authors: Mary and Michael Miklosovic, from the Word of Life in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Your people are my people
In the book of Ruth, Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” (Ruth 1:16-17)
We carry, each one of us, how we were raised by our families. And when a man and woman marry, his family becomes hers and her family becomes his. When each gives his and her life to the other, that choice is made and no questions or reservations can remain. This husband-and-wife relationship is “by your side, come hell or high water, ’til death!” This relationship absorbs all family relationships, easy and difficult, because “your people are my people” now; because “you are mine and I am yours.”
Ask yourself today: How can I better love my extended family?
Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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