Today, God is looking for people who are not just worshippers but true worshippers. The time has come for us to totally surrender our lives to God than continue living in our sins.
Many claim to love God but live just to please themselves and not fulfilling his will.
With their lips they honour God but their heart is far from Him.
God is looking for those who will denounce the world and take up the Cross of Christ to be true disciples. To do this requires a great commitment and not just by a mere confession that you are a believer and follower of Christ.
The story about Naomi, Ruth and Orpah has a great lesson for us, a lesson that reflects the characters of a true believers and fake believers:
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 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. And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them food. Therefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me. The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voices, and wept. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with you unto your people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons; Would you tarry for them till they were grown? would you refrain from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me. And they lifted up their voices, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clung to her. And she said, Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return you after your sister-in-law. And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after 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, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me. When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she ceased speaking unto her. So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was stirred because of them, and they said, Is this Naomi? Ruth 1:1-19
The two sisters, Ruth and Orpah believed so much in their mother in law, Naomi and so mafer up their minds to follower her when she decided to return to Bethlehem. They got to a point where there was a need to make a final decision about the path they must choose.
Oprah who had walked with Naomi and was determined to go with her gave up and decided to return to Moab. Moab was a land that was filled with idol worshippers yet Orpah decided to turn back.
Ruth unlike Orpah was so determined to follow Naomi where she goes. She didn't give up and she renounced those idols which her sister had returned to, and made a decision to worship no other God but the only true God.
The world is has opened it's wide arms to receive anyone who cares little about God and things of God. It will eventually swallow anyone who goes through that path. Stop loving the world and the things of the world for they are all passing away.
God wants us to give up anything that we cherish so much and has become an idol to us. He wants us to make an undying commitment to follow him wholeheartedly. Today if you hear the voice of the Lord do not Harden your heart.