Be committed to your discipleship
Discipleship is the whole process of learning and following diligently the discipline acts to become a disciple. This is a process that is never pleases but it leaves one better. Discipleship was introduced so that people will pay the price to willingly yield themselves to tutor which will educate their mind and souls, thereby caused deep transformation. The whole process of discipleship is quite necessary because people have been where you are intending to go so you need their teachings and principles to navigate through.
Yes, you will navigate issues of life if you are a true disciple of someone who has passed through the same path you are still intending to pass through. There is nothing in life that is as beautiful as when someone is committed to his or her discipleship. It is the discipleship you are committed to that will first breaks you, them build you and set you on higher ground.
You will be committed and eager to yield yourself completely if you will make a significant difference.
Discipleship has the tendency to break off things that might be an over weight. No one can get the huge benefits of discipleship who is not committed to the whole process to become a disciple. Discipleship must cost you if you will become a true disciple. There is no two ways about becoming a true and genuine disciple. You will be committed and eager to yield yourself completely if you will make any significant difference.
6 Then Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had blessed his people in Judah by giving them good crops again. So Naomi and her daughters-in-law got ready to leave Moab to return to her homeland.
7 With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.
8 But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes instead of coming with me. And may the LORD reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me.
9 May the LORD bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.
10 “No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.”
11 But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands?
12 No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what?
13 Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD himself has caused me to suffer.”
14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth insisted on staying with Naomi.
15 “See,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”
16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
17 I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”
18 So when Naomi saw that Ruth had made up her mind to go with her, she stopped urging her. (Ruth chapter 1 verses 6 to 18 NLT)
Discipleship must cost you
Though Orpah and Ruth were daughters in-law, yet I believe Naomi spent time tutoring them in the ways of God and her life style was one to emulate. She had helped two of them discovered their familiarity. They discovered the right and best way to be submissive to their husbands by her teachings and mentorship. She thought them how to be courageous and live faithfully in good or hard time.
When she lost her husband and two sons, she decided to go back to her home town. But these ladies followed her and refused to go back to their people. Even when she was persuading them to go back. At a point, Orpah decided to quit.
“And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.” (Ruth chapter 1 verses 14 KJV)
Ruth clave unto her! Why did Ruth clave unto her? To Orpah it was morel about marriage. But to Ruth was more about mentoring and discipleship. To Ruth was more of the teachings she do receive from Naomi. To Ruth it was about her discipleship. She treasured her discipleship more. Ruth on her walked with Naomi, she discovered more about personal discovery and personal transformation.
Ruth was committed to her marriage but when marriage failed, she understood the whole thing was beyond just marriage but discipleship. Yes, Ruth was committed to become like her mother in-law. People may have talked to them to go back to their people apart from Naomi since they are still young and well looking. While Orpah succumb, Ruth held on on her committed.
She discovered more about personal discovery and personal transformation.
To your commitment to discipleship, you must be willing to follow; you must avoid distractions by all cost and you must be willing to follow till the end. When Orpah decided to quit her discipleship, we never heard about her again. We only heard about Ruth who was committed to her discipleship. It is not about how you started, will you be committed till the end? I am sure when Orpah heard about how Ruth ended up, she will not be all that pleased with herself. They both had the same opportunity to be disciple, while Orpah was looking at the present, Ruth saw the future and took hold of it.
Remember Ruth was a Moabite. Their lineage is from incense. By right they have nothing to do with the Jews and the blessing of the Jews. But discipleship and been committed to her discipleship made her to be able to stood out. Discipleship changed her life, changed her personality and launched her into the abundance of life and God’s blessings.
Conclusion
There are much that is waiting for you. Only be committed to your discipleship and you will surely end up a happy and fulfilled person.
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