Ruth, though her needs were met, and much kindness had been shown her, was without a home; she had no rest (verse 1), no home.
Reader, have you an interest, made yours through the Saviour's blood, in the rest, the home, that remains for the people of God? "We which have believed", Hebrews 4:3,3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. (Hebrews 4:3) plainly states, "do enter into rest", for "there remaineth a rest to the people of God."
Naomi, then, led of God, proposed to Ruth that she boldly lay claim to the mighty kinsman who, had already treated her with much kindness. This she did. and Boaz answered her. "Fear not, I will do to thee all that thou requires (verse 11), but there was a nearer kinsman; if he would not do the kinsman's part, redeeming the inheritance,—then the great man of wealth would.
We are looking at Ruth as a Gentile stranger seeking shelter by faith beneath the wings of the God of Israel and this nearer kinsman typified the law given through Moses, which was never able to re-establish Israel in their inheritance. nor to raise up in grace the name of the dead.
Many today are seeking to establish themselves by keeping the law, or rather by trying to keep the law, thinking thereby to merit heaven; but the law could never make perfect that which was imperfect—there was always the conscience of 'sins (Heb. 10:1-141For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:1‑14)).
It must be all of grace, the work of God, the ground of the believer's peace. There is an eternal relationship of the closest, the most precious character, planned by God for His beloved Son, that those who have received Him by faith as their Saviour and Lord should be with and like Him, His body indeed and His heavenly bride (Ephesians, etc.), but this is all of God's doing, not at all of man's..
Reader, if you are clinging to any fancied goodness of your own for salvation, I beg you to abandon it once and for all.