The Field Of Grace

THE FIELD OF GRACE

Ruth Chapter 2 :1-18

As we read here, Ruth had entered this certain field. This field was not hers, but a man named Boaz. Here we see God put his plans into motion.

Neither Ruth nor Boaz ever imagined what would transpire with them meeting here in this field of grace.

I would like to point out three things that happened to both Ruth and Boaz in the verses from which I have read to you all.

Notice with me the first thing in verse 7;

And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

Here I think was THE PRAYER FROM RUTH.

What Ruth was saying can I just have any portion that your workers have left behind or just do not care to pick from.

She has left her mother-in-law Naomi to try and find somewhere just some place where I can get enough to make us a biscuit or two, where we will not starve to death.

Ruth I’m sure had prayed about this matter, Naomi had prayed about this matter and ask God to send her a field where she could gather up enough food to feed the both of them.

You see Ruth is no more than a beggar, she could not go into the field and just start picking where she wanted to pick. She had to stay behind the workers and try to get what they had left behind. Just a handful of grain that she thought might be enough to feed them.

Now, the law required that she could pick from a field because her husband had died but she had to stay in the corner of a field or back behind the pickers, all she could have was the bare leftovers.

I’m also sure both Naomi and Ruth prayed before God to help them with their food problems.

God looked down and heard Ruth ask Boaz when she said, “I pray thee” God heard and seen that she was humble in her asking.

God looked down upon this field and anointed it with His almighty hands.

I want to tell you this, Ruth coming to Boaz’s field was no accident.

Prayers by both Ruth and Boaz were being answered, yet they didn’t know it at the moment.

Sometimes our prayers are not always the way we want them to be. God may have them in motion at a different speed or time he just needs you to start going in that direction before it is answered.

#2- First there was the PRAYER FROM RUTH, now let us look at THE PLACE FOR RUTH.

Notice with me in Verse 5;

5- Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Ruth was over in one of those corners of that field, I think Boaz had to squint his eyes to see that far away but he sees this woman there. She is bent down and picking up what was left over from the ground, what very little was even left. Boaz noticed her and asked one of the men that were with him, “whose damsel is this”

I want to tell you Ruth was placed in this field by God. Boaz was placed in the ownership of this field by God.

If you look back into the Hebrew and translate what Boaz just ask, I think it would translate into something like this, “Wow! Isn’t she good looking, I need a closer look at her”

Ruth was directed by God to this field, make no mistake about that this morning.

Here in this field of grace, a grace that would set up the very plan for the doors in heaven to open up.

Look with me to Verse 8; Old Boaz wanted Ruth; he wanted her to stay in his field.

8 - Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

Boaz knew a good thing we he saw it. Boaz had just…well in another word, JUST FELL IN LOVE AT FIRST SITE.

Oh, the place, this field was full of God movement, God’s plan and Ruth and Boaz were in the right place fulfilling the plan of God.

This was surly the very place for Ruth.

Let’s read verse 10;

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 field Ruth felt that grace but also notice she ended this verse, “seeing I am a stranger”