She Starts on the Way

“And she went out from the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law went with her. And they went on their way to return to the land of Judah.” V. 7.

The world says as Pharaoh did: It is not necessary to separate yourself; you can just as well sacrifice in Egypt, because we need people like you. Naomi was of a different spirit. She arose and left the place where she had been.

What a blessed day it is when a person makes a decision like that. Such a day came for Abraham when he forsook his country and his people and went out to a land which the Lord would show him. Such a day came for Moses when he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, and such a day has come for us.

Those who are of this world walk according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, according to the god of this world, and their work is to do the will of the flesh and of the mind, whose end is corruption. They live in a land they have inherited from their forefathers. 1 Pet. 1:18. Their habitation is a corrupt mind that is weighed down by guilt. Everyone who wants to reach the heavenly Canaan has to leave this place. You cannot bring sacrifices in Egypt that are acceptable to the Lord (Ex. 8:25), and yet there are many people who try to do just that. However, the result of all that is only form and custom—appointing priests indiscriminately according to their own desires, priests who divide the world into parishes so that the one who is not born again is equal to God’s true children.

Leave the world and its priesthood entirely. Begin to walk on the way to the land of Judah, for the god of this world and Jehovah cannot be worshipped in the same place.