Ruth shares her gleanings and Naomi said, “Blessed be he of the Lord”.

Ruth 2:18-20

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“Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.” Ruth 2:18

The phrase, “Then she took it up…” refers to all the leftover food that Boaz gave to Ruth from the meal he invited her to. She ate until she was satisfied, put the leftovers in a “doggy bag”, then went home to Naomi [her mother-in-law and gave her the leftovers [this is explained in Ruth 2:14-17]. Our Lord Jesus fills us up with His Spirit until we are satisfied, then there is plenty left-over to share with others from our heart and soul about God and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. “Fill my cup Lord, I lift it up, Lord! Come and quench this thirsting of my soul; Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole!” Church Song]

Even when Ruth was filled after eating, and she was given the leftovers, Boaz also commanded his people that when she gleans the grain from his field, to let her glean from the harvested sheaves, and to purposely allow grain to fall for her. Ruth gleaned from morning to evening, so she had an abundance [as described in Ruth 2:14-17.] Our Lord Jesus also rewards us an abundance of Hi Spirit and will give us an abundance in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth, “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:38

“And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”  Ruth 2:19

Naomi would have certainly been surprised at the amount of gleanings that Ruth had brought home to her. That’sbecause gleaning is to pick up whatever possible after the reapers had already “mowed” the field, which means very little would have been left behind. However, Ruth had a lot, and it was the same healthy and bountiful grain that the reapers had harvested for themselves. Likewise, our Lord Jesus brought the Kingdom of God to us non-Jewish Gentiles, and the God we serve is the same Living God that the Jewish people had always kept for themselves. However, we serve God through Jesus Christ, like Ruth [a Gentile Moabite] who gleaned from the field of the Jewish people by the authority of Boaz.

Naomi was curious where Ruth [a Moabite] came up with so much grain from Jewish fields. This is like us Christians who have an enormous amount of grain from the Old Testament, and so much so that we can see the “scarlet cord” in the Old Testament that points to Jesus as the Christ and Savior of the world. In essence, the whole Bible has become the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ruth very honestly let Naomi know that Boaz was the one who gave her permission to have so much grain from the Jewish field. Likewise, in the New Testament, the people once living by the Old Testament gleanings came to openly acknowledge Jesus Christ as they became Christians through the born-again experience, “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32

“Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives.” Ruth 2:20

As Naomi said, Ruth was blessed for being noticed by Boaz, the same as we are blessed today because our Lord Jesus has noticed all non-Jewish people to make us part of the family of God, “Blessed is the person whom the Lord no longer considers sinful.” Romans 4:8 [GW translation]. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17

Boaz was a close relative to Naomi, the same as Jesus Christ being a close relative to the Jewish people. Jesus was indeed Jewish, from the tribe of Judah. Even with His Jewish family tree, Jesus brought God and the Holy Spirit to whoever believes in Him, “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:11-13

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1