"The Purification of The Bride" -2

"Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him." (Psalms 45:10 & 11) I can not begin to tell you how right that felt, usually I give unwanted movies to someone else, but to throw them away seemed more well deserved, even though I did like some of those movies for their message, though the message was filled with ungodliness and worldliness. But that is how we must look at those things in our lives; do they bring honor to the King? do they add beauty to our lives that He should desire from us? As I was praying this morning, I could not get a certain Book out of my mind, one that is buried between Judges and 1 Samuel, called Ruth; it is only four short chapters long, but it carries a powerful message which deeply lines up with the general theme of these verses. Although it is basically a love story, it is the story of a heathen girl named Ruth that falls in love with Jehovah God, believing that He is the only true God; therefore causing her to leave the life of her ancestors and follow her mother-in-law to Bethlehem to end up marrying Boaz, and to become the great-grandparents of King David. The line in that Book which best describes what I am talking about is found in Ruth 1:16 & 17, as Ruth is cleaving onto Naomi, and does not want to return to the land of her people, she says, "Entreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me". Basically this is about a heart that surrenders all for the sake of knowing the One True God; having tasted the God of Israel, she had no desire to return to the pagan gods of her people, but only wanted to know more of this Jehovah God and to be one of His people. That is what I felt the Lord speaking into my heart yesterday, that I needed to separate myself from those things that are not of God, and cling onto those things which are of God; which I had already known, but these were some of the things which I had let into my life unfiltered... "According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain into life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:3-8)