When Boaz found out that the foreigner gleaning in his field was the young Moabite woman who had returned with Naomi, he immediately made acquaintance with her.
Then Boaz said to Ruth, "You will listen, my daughter, will you not?
He claims kinship with her and calls her daughter! He claims relationship with her! Despite being a stranger and a foreigner Boaz is not ashamed to call her his brethren. (Hebrews 2:11)
My heart bursts every time I read that thinking of how his kind words must have impacted Ruth’s heart...
Even though God is not mentioned once in this story it is easy to see Jesus on every page. Boaz is a type of Christ...He is our Kinsman Redeemer, our Lord of the Harvest and our Master.
Boaz continues in his kindness to Ruth and she responds in humbled gratitude.
So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him,"Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?"—Ruth 2:10
I so understand Ruth’s response to Boaz’s kindness. I have felt similarly overwhelmed and utterly humbled in the face of my God’s kindness to me in His Son. And it is often the little kindnesses that He shows me that remind me that He truly is “my God who sees me.”
Boaz’s kindness here and throughout the book of Ruth fills my own heart and makes me want to be like him...like my Jesus.
❤️And be ye kind to one another—Ephesians 4:32
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