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I just realized that my post could be taken as being smug, NOT, I just wanted you to know that Ruth, the great ancestor of our Lord, David, and Solomon, is so very special. You might say, and correctly, she was the mother of Kings. As for her story, she being a Moabitess was not in the line of Abraham, yet our Lord's genealogy is through her, and this is so very wonderful. She cleaved to Naomi, her mother-in-law, and not only to her but to her God. It does not take much meditation to realize we all are doing much the same as did Ruth in coming to the God of Naomi, of Abraham, through Jesus Christ. If you look into the geneology of Jesus, you will find some fascinating facts about our faith, and people who were outstanding in their faith. I like to call Jesus by His Jewish name, since He was a Jew, and as I have learned It, It is Yeshua. This is simply what I like because it is a privilege to try to call Him by the same name His parents would have called Him in the Hebrew of His time.
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I truly hope it is helpful for you in the Way Jesus is giving you. He is very personal that way, and this is how we know how great His love is for each of us. He is truly wondrously wonderful, amen. I have a time realizing this all of the time, but somehow, and only God can manage this, you and I are very special to our God, otherwise, as it is written, the hosts of heaven would not be rejoicing for yours and my salvation, but they sure do. Halleluyah, (halleluyah means praise God), so always say that with understanding, and it means so much more.
This record is certainly beneficial, helping lovers of righteousness to build strong faith. All the principals in this account showed outstanding faith in Jehovah, and they “had witness borne to them through their faith.” (Hebrews 11:39) They became fine examples for us today. Naomi exhibited deep confidence in the loving-kindness of Jehovah. (Ruth 1:8; 2:20) Ruth willingly left her homeland to pursue the worship of Jehovah; she proved herself to be loyal and submissive, as well as a willing worker. It was Boaz’ keen appreciation of Jehovah’s law and his humble acquiescence in doing His will, as well as his love for the faithful Naomi and the industrious Ruth, that led him to perform his privilege of marriage by repurchase.
Jehovah’s provision of marriage, and in this instance marriage by repurchase, was used to his honor. He was the Arranger of the marriage of Boaz and Ruth and he blessed it according to his loving-kindness; he used it as a means of preserving unbroken the royal line of Judah leading to David and finally to the Greater David, Jesus Christ. His watchful care in producing the Kingdom Heir according to his legal provision should strengthen our assurance and make us look forward with confidence to the fulfillment of all the Kingdom promises. It should stimulate us to be busy in the modern-day harvest work, confident of a perfect wage from the God of spiritual Israel, under whose ‘wings we have come to seek refuge” and whose Kingdom purposes are advancing so gloriously to their complete fulfillment. (2:12) The book of Ruth is another essential link in the record leading up to that Kingdom.
Jehovah’s provision of marriage, and in this instance marriage by repurchase, was used to his honor. He was the Arranger of the marriage of Boaz and Ruth and he blessed it according to his loving-kindness; he used it as a means of preserving unbroken the royal line of Judah leading to David and finally to the Greater David, Jesus Christ. His watchful care in producing the Kingdom Heir according to his legal provision should strengthen our assurance and make us look forward with confidence to the fulfillment of all the Kingdom promises. It should stimulate us to be busy in the modern-day harvest work, confident of a perfect wage from the God of spiritual Israel, under whose ‘wings we have come to seek refuge” and whose Kingdom purposes are advancing so gloriously to their complete fulfillment. (2:12) The book of Ruth is another essential link in the record leading up to that Kingdom.