Ruth 1:16-17a... But Ruth said, “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."----------We begin a new series of messages this Sunday. A light in the midst of the time of Judges comes the story of Ruth. Over the next few weeks we will make our way through the narrative of this story.----------At the beginning of Ruth's tale, we see her making the choice to leave behind her people along with their pagan ways to follow her mother-in-law, Naomi. It was not simply a decision to be loyal after the death of her husband, it represented a major life change.----------It's not unlike the choices we face at times in our lives; choices that end up altering the course of our lives. It is why it is so imperative for us to seek God's will in these choices.