WHERE YOU GO

TITLE: WHERE YOU GO
ARTIST: THE NAZARENE
STYLE: Children’s biblical wisdom Gospel, Ruth origin story, harvest-field warmth, harp, kalimba, soft strings, marimba, rainbow chorus, gentle heroic hope

[INTRO]

Ruth was not born in Israel.

She came from Moab.
She knew grief.
She knew loss.
She knew leaving.

But she chose love.
She chose faithfulness.
She chose the God of Naomi.

Where you go, I will go.

[VERSE 1]

Naomi left Bethlehem when famine came,
house of bread with an empty name.
Moab roads and a family’s pain,
trying to live through hunger and rain.

There were two sons, two brides, one home,
then death came heavy and left them alone.
Naomi wept with a widow’s cry,
three women standing under sorrow’s sky.

She said, “Go back, find rest, find peace,”
let this road and grief release.
Orpah kissed and turned away,
Ruth stood close and chose to stay.

“Where you go, I will go too,
your people mine, your God mine too.
Where you lodge, I will lodge there,
your road my road, your prayer my prayer.”

Gen Alpha, listen, loyalty shines,
when love stays near through broken times.
Not clout, not comfort, not easy applause,
but covenant kindness when life feels paused.

[HOOK]

Where you go, I will go,
through the valley, through the unknown.
Your God my God, your people mine,
faithfulness walking through harvest time.

Kindness in the field, mercy in the grain,
God still works through sorrow and pain.
Little acts of love can grow,
where you go, I will go.

[VERSE 2]

Back to Bethlehem, dust on their feet,
two widows walking through a hungry street.
No big platform, no palace gate,
just empty hands and a humble state.

Ruth went gleaning behind the crowd,
picking up grain where the poor were allowed.
God had written mercy into the law,
edges of fields for the ones people saw.

Boaz noticed the foreign girl,
working with courage in a difficult world.
He heard her story, her faithful care,
how she loved Naomi through loss and prayer.

He said, “May the Lord repay what you’ve done,
under His wings may refuge come.”
Not every hero swings a sword,
some heroes gather grain before the Lord.

Children, learn this quiet art:
kindness is strength from a faithful heart.
God sees service nobody posts,
He honours love that does not boast.

[CHOIR COUNTER]

Under His wings,
refuge and rest.
God sees the humble.
Kindness is blessed.

[HOOK]

Where you go, I will go,
through the valley, through the unknown.
Your God my God, your people mine,
faithfulness walking through harvest time.

Kindness in the field, mercy in the grain,
God still works through sorrow and pain.
Little acts of love can grow,
where you go, I will go.

[VERSE 3]

Boaz was more than a wealthy man,
he understood the redeemer plan.
He did not crush, he did not shame,
he covered Ruth with an honourable name.

At the gate where the elders heard,
he settled the matter with careful word.
Land and family, future and seed,
redemption answered Naomi’s need.

Ruth the outsider was brought inside,
grace made room where loss had cried.
Moab daughter in Bethlehem’s line,
God was weaving through ordinary time.

Then Obed came, and Naomi smiled,
grief found laughter in a baby child.
Obed to Jesse, Jesse to David,
royal roots where mercy was braided.

And from that line came Christ the King,
the true Redeemer of everything.
Ruth’s small story became a door,
to the Saviour who saves the poor.

[BRIDGE]

Not everyone starts inside the gate.
Not every child feels chosen by fate.
Not every family story is clean.
Not every wound is quickly seen.

But God loves the foreigner.
God sees the poor.
God honours kindness
outside the door.

He takes the gleaning.
He takes the tears.
He writes redemption
through ordinary years.

[VERSE 4]

For Gen Alpha in a scrolling age,
where people get judged by name and page,
Ruth says love across the line,
don’t make strangers feel left behind.

Boaz says power should protect,
not exploit, ignore, reject.
Naomi says grief can still breathe hope,
God gives strength when hearts can’t cope.

And Jesus fulfils the redeemer role,
not just land, but body and soul.
He paid the cost we could not pay,
brought outsiders home by grace’s way.

So be the friend who stays nearby,
be the hands that help, not passers-by.
Leave some grain at the edges too,
make room for those with less than you.

Faith is not always thunder and flame,
sometimes it whispers through a loyal name.
Ruth in the field, Boaz at the gate,
God working quietly, never late.

[FINAL HOOK]

Where you go, I will go,
through the valley, through the unknown.
Your God my God, your people mine,
faithfulness walking through harvest time.

Kindness in the field, mercy in the grain,
God still works through sorrow and pain.
Little acts of love can grow,
where you go, I will go.

[OUTRO]

Ruth was an outsider.
Naomi was grieving.
Boaz was a redeemer.

God was working.

Through loyalty.
Through kindness.
Through harvest.
Through ordinary faith.

Ruth points to Jesus,
the true Redeemer,
who brings outsiders home.