Daily Devotions
Our Kinsman Redeemer
Reading for March 21st: Ruth 1-4
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him." Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Ruth 4:13-17
If we don't see Jesus in the story of Ruth, we're missing the point. Think about it, Boaz is a type of Christ because he takes on a debt that was not his own taking on the responsibility of being a kinsman-redeemer (read Leviticus 25). Ruth is a type of Christ because she leaves her home, where she has security in her own family and better prospects of finding a husband, to take care of her mother-in-law. Jesus both left his home to come to serve us (like Ruth), and (like Boaz) he came to this earth so that he might pay our debt by suffering and dying on a cross as our redeemer.
Father, thank you for sending your Son to this earth to redeem us from our sins!
