Don’t Go Back to the World

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Ruth 1:2 “And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.”

Elimelech had decided to take his family away from the land of Israel. But it was only going to be a ‘sojourn’ – which means a brief stay. Not a great rebellion against God, but just a little dabble for a season in another land. He loves Israel, and they will come back. There’s nothing wrong with this right? No! Don’t ever make a little sojourn back to the world again when you are already in the Promised Land. This act of Elimelech had cost him his life and his two sons.

Once Isaac went on a little sojourn also down to Gerar during a famine. He even prospered materially while he was there. But it didn’t stop the Philistines from filling up his wells with earth till they were dry! A good picture of the effect of worldliness on our spiritual wells when we go back to the world.