Ruth 2: It has fully been revealed.

Ruth 2:11 And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully revealed to me all that you have done with your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. And you left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people which you had not known before.

This verse records the response of Boaz. Ruth had been elevated by this man in the presence of everyone at that house. She had no idea why this man should bestow that degree of kindness in her direction. Why, she asks, have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou should take knowledge of me, a stranger?

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It has been fully revealed to me all that you have done....

Where can we go with this? Can we go to Jesus as He watched the widow give all her substance of two mites to the treasury of God's Temple? She did not go unnoticed; no, the King Himself was watching. It was fully revealed to Him. She did not know Who was watching her that day, yet He commended her and we have that in our Bibles.

And what about you? He has the full report. How will it be for you when you stand before the Throne? Will He tell you how you fed Him when He was hungry? How you clothed Him or provided shelter for Him from the weather? Will He tell you of the times you visited Him and comforted Him? Or will He say something different? Perhaps you have not properly represented your Father. Maybe your actions reveal you to be something other than an ambassador for Christ.

I fear that there are too many Christians by name, who are really about their own names. How will it be for those who go through life looking for their own blessing? Will they name it and claim it at the feet of the King in the presence of His holy angels? Or will they be singing a different tune: If only I had known it was You, Lord! I would have given my right arm! If only had known! as they are carried off to the everlasting fire.

Boaz had the full report on Ruth. It was a good report.

Ruth 2:11 And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully revealed to me all that you have done with your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. And you left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people which you had not known before.

The full revelation of what Ruth did for one person reached the ears of him whose name means Strength. What one person has God placed in your path, and you have the power to be a blessing to that one person? He will have the full report of what you did, or did not do. Is Ruth an example or what?

What Ruth did, she did since the death of her husband. Before Ruth could do the works, there was a death, and that death involved her own flesh. For two, Scripture tells us, shall be one flesh.

This goes deeper, for the flesh to which she was joined and became a part of was under the Law. And that flesh died. Then began her works, for which she would be praised and rewarded by him whose name means Strength.

And you left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people which you had not known before.

This looks familiar. Didn't Jesus say something like that one time?

Mar 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
Mar 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.