Not a captive, but free

She cried, "Liberty!"

Ruth set forth on her voyage,

Heart beating bold and her resolution, stone.

She looked behind- everything she never thought she could do without,
Was left behind.

How stubborn the webs, the coverings, the ropes had all been.

So many were pleasant and good, but as she stepped forth,

They pulled her back.

Impossibility-

She could not go forward if they were holding her.

She cut the ties she never thought she would need to or could

And stepped forward.  Again, again, again.

Every so often she would have to STOP as another bond made her jerk to a stop.

They were dearer the farther she moved on.

But they were cut by some rumble within her soul, and Ruth made her way to her destination.

God was her light whom she followed.   Something inside her commanded, "GO"--

And somehow, she was doing just that.

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Lord, I long for such a testimony.  I am so weak-willed often times.  I LONG to be doing what you've told me, even if it is just me and you on the journey.  You are more than enough, I have faith in that.  My heart my reel and I might cry or grieve, but I want to KNOW that you.  are.  enough.  I want to be Yours.
Please show me the areas that are holding me from what you want me to be doing.  Convict my heart. Search me and show me.  Then Lord, help me to turn from those things by Your grace.  All things are possible with God.
In Jesus, name, Amen.