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Ruth 3:14-18 – A Picture of Christ

Once again, Boaz is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Boaz provides for Ruth’s security and welfare. So too, in a spiritual sense, the Lord Jesus Christ does this for us. Notice that you can have this security and you can have this welfare even before this day is over, if you want it. The Lord Jesus Christ will fulfill the whole transaction. He will sort the whole business, and he will bring it to its conclusion so that you can be secure and well for all your days, if you only will come to him this day as Ruth did in verse 9. If we would only come to Christ like that, with humility, with faith, well, then it will all be sorted for us, and we will have security and peace. Should we not come to Christ in humility as a servant? Should we not come, recognizing that we have no right to ask him for any favours, that we have sinned against him so often from our earliest days that there is no reason that we can conjure up in our imagination why he should take us under his wings and provide for us security and peace? We come in humility. We come confessing our sin, recognizing our shame and our guilt, saying, where else can I turn but to you? We come asking him to take us under his wing. The Lord Jesus Christ is willing to take us under his wing, as a husband would take a wife, as a great, noble husband would take an unworthy wife, one who is widowed and poor and unable to care for herself. How do we know that he is willing? The Lord Jesus Christ took on flesh that he could become a kinsman redeemer for his people. If you recognize your insecurity and that you lack welfare, as Naomi recognized here at the start of the chapter, where else can you go but to a kinsman Redeemer? The Lord Jesus Christ is willing to fulfill everything that is required. You need not worry. Before this night is over, it will be concluded, if only you’ll go to Him. What excuse can you give to that? If He is willing to sort it, will you not go to Him? He’s announced his intentions. He is a kinsman redeemer to us, and He is willing to save.

Question

  1. How is Boaz like Christ?
  2. How should we come to Christ?

Prayer Points

  1. Pray for the preaching and hearing of God’s Word tomorrow.
  2. Use prayer points from your congregation.
  3. Pray for family matters.