Going the Extra Mile

Going the Extra Mile

"But Ruth replied, 'Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.'" Ruth 1:16 (NIV) Some people do just enough to get by. Others, however, go above and beyond, quietly setting themselves apart. The Bible is full of examples of people who went the extra mile—and God honored them in ways that changed history. Take Joseph, for instance. Sold into slavery by his own brothers, he d...