Ruth 2:10, 12 (1:16-17)
Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
And why should my LORD God find such favor in me, one who was so far from the Kingdom of God and His righteousness?!
"May the LORD reward your work, and your wages be full from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge."
(Also:) But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried...."
Boaz recognized that Ruth had given up her whole culture in Moab to embrace the lifestyle and religion of Israel. And especially that she had chosen to worship the LORD God over the Moabite god Chemosh. And her embracing the LORD enabled her to be good to her mother-in-law, even after her husband died (2:11).
When I decided to search for the Truth, regardless of what it might cost me, I didn't realize that Jesus is the Truth (and the Way and the Life). So when God led me to Himself, He showed me that Jesus is my Redeemer, even greater than the Kinsman-Redeemer Boaz was to Ruth.
O praise our God for His love that is so much greater than any other love we may encounter in this world. Greater even than the Mother-love given to shelter and protect to propagate our race of Mankind on this Earth.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
