Ruth 2:10
"Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?"
In this passage of Scripture, Ruth is talking to her kinsman redeemer, Boaz. Boaz is a type of Christ, THE Kinsman Redeemer of all His children. Christ is a Kinsman, related to His children by way of His body of flesh, "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." (Hebrews 2:14)
All of Christ's children were given to Him in eternity, before they were born on this earth, "Behold I and the children which God hath given Me." (Hebrews 2:13) But none of these were saved from the "power of death," until Christ came to this earth to redeem them by His own death.
Ruth sees herself as a stranger, unworthy of this man taking knowledge of her. She is an example of the redeemed of Christ, in awe that such a One could care for them. But we are never strangers to Christ, no matter how it may seem to us, "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an Everlasting Love: therefore with Lovingkindness have I drawn thee." (Jeremiah 31:3)
We are drawn by Lovingkindness,
with Lovingkindness
and to Lovingkindness,
which is Christ Jesus our LORD
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