At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She exclaimed, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”
Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother–in–law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” - Ruth 2:10-12 NIV
"Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me, a foreigner?" That is the question we should all be asking. Why has God favored us so, that he has brought us into his family, that we have been adopted and accepted as sons of God when we were born foreigners. Whether we realize it or not, we have all left behind the land in which we were born, the homeland of this world, and we are now citizens, not by birth, but by a new birth, in a new kingdom. We are now living in the shelter of the wings of the God of Iarael where we are sheltered and protected from all of the woes we were subjected to in that foreign land. How different would our lives be if we saw ourselves as privileged sons and with such promise as Ruth?
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