Enter into the field of Boaz where much favour is awaiting you Part 2

Let’s see what the field of Boaz or the kingdom of God has in store for us

​THE FIELD OF BOAZ OFFERED PROVISIONS. 

Jesus said "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all things shall be added unto us”. When Ruth stepped into the field that day, she went expecting grain. She went as a gleaner, someone prepared to gather leftovers. But what she encountered was not mere survival. It was abundance wrapped in kindness.

Boaz instructed her to drink from the vessels the young men had drawn (Ruth 2:9). She did not have to strain under the sun to draw water for herself. At mealtime, she was invited to sit with the maidservants though she was just a gleaner. She was offered bread and vinegar and served roasted grain until she was satisfied  with leftovers to carry home (Ruth 2:14).

By the end of the day, her gleaning amounted to an ephah of barley, an unusually generous portion (Ruth 2:17). This was not the bare minimum needed to survive. It was provision with overflow. Later, on the night Ruth appealed to Boaz as her kinsman-redeemer, he again ensured she would not return empty-handed. “Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed,” he said, sending her home with six measures of barley (Ruth 3:15).

This is the rhythm of the Kingdom.

In Bethlehem’s fields, Ruth discovered what Jesus would later declare: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33). Ruth did not chase abundance; she sought refuge under covenant covering (Ruth 2:12). And in that place, provision pursued her.

The Kingdom of God does not operate on scarcity. When we come under the covering of our Redeemer, we are not sent away empty. We are filled and often entrusted with more than enough to bless others.

She went out to glean. She came home with abundance.

His Word assures us that “those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing” (Psalm 34:10). Ruth arrived in Bethlehem uncertain and vulnerable, carrying the weight of loss and an unknown future. In the very season when she could have expected scarcity, she encountered provision.

Her story quietly reflects the promise later written in Philippians 4:19  that God supplies our needs according to His riches, not according to our striving. Ruth did not secure her future by her own strength; she simply stepped into obedience and sought refuge under the Lord’s covering (Ruth 2:12). Provision met her there. Jesus echoed this Kingdom truth in the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things

THE FIELD OF BOAZ OFFERED A SENSE OF BELONGING AND SECURITY. 

Though Ruth came to the fields as a gleaner, one permitted to gather leftovers behind the harvesters (Ruth 2:2–3), she was not treated as a mere outsider. When she bowed before Boaz and asked, “Why have I found favour in your eyes… since I am a foreigner?” (Ruth 2:10), her question carried the weight of being left out. Moabites were excluded from the assembly (Deut. 23:3). By law and culture, she stood on the margins.

Boaz spoke protection over her provision into her hands and dignity into her identity. He did not merely tolerate her presence; he ensured her belonging. In his field, Ruth was not treated according to her past, her nationality, or her poverty. She was seen. Covered. Welcomed. The story quietly foreshadows the greater redemption revealed in Epistle to the Ephesians 

Paul writes that we have been made “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6). The Greek word for “accepted” (charitoō) carries the sense of being graced into welcome. And again: “You who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13). Later he declares, “You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God” (Eph. 2:19).

Ruth expected to stand at the edge of the field. Instead, she found herself drawn near. This is the gospel pattern. We approach God aware of our distance, our unworthiness, our foreignness. Yet in Jesus Christ, we are not merely permitted to glean at the margins, we are seated at the table (Eph. 2:6; Rom. 8:15–17).

Belonging, then, is not secured by geography, relationships, marriage, or citizenship. Nations shift. Friendships fluctuate. Even the most sacred human bonds cannot anchor identity. Belonging is secured in a Person. 

The field of Boaz was a temporary refuge; the heart of Christ is an eternal home. In Him, the outsider becomes family. The foreigner becomes heir. The one who stood far off is brought near forever.

We will continue this journey in the next blog as well.