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Discovering Christ in Ruth: Christ Our Kinsman Redeemer is unavailable, but you can change that!

Everyone likes a love story with a happy ending. The story of Ruth and Boaz has special appeal to believers, because we see in it an outline of our own spiritual history and of our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, our Kinsman Redeemer, of whom Boaz was a type. The revealed theme is redemption and grace. Boaz was Ruth’s close relative, the one who had the right to redeem. As such, he...

the world was made. He loved us freely from eternity. Let men talk as they may about universal benevolence, God’s love for his elect is a special, sovereign, distinguishing love (Isa. 43:3–4). Read Ruth 2:1, 9, 16. As the fields of Bethlehem belonged to Boaz, so this world belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is his by design, by decree, and by death (Col. 1:16–17; John 3:35; 17:2; Rom. 14:9). As Ruth’s “hap was to light on a part of the field belonging
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