Then She Fell on Her Face and Bowed Down to the Ground

Ruth had heard from Naomi that Boaz was a mighty man, but now it could be said that she no longer believed because of what Naomi had said, but had heard and seen it herself.

We have to bow down to the ground before a love that is full of insight and care. If you want to become a winner of souls for Christ—a fisher of men—then the souls need to sense in the smallest detail that you care for them. Such love and care will cause every poor Ruth to fall on her face.

It is easy to ask a person to bow down by the altar or by the speaker’s platform and after eight days forget him and feel you are no longer responsible for him. On the contrary, it requires work, time, strength, and self-denial to nurse a person so that he, like a child with his mother, can grow up. Such love causes a person to fall on his face—not to get rid of his burden of sin, for he has already taken care of that, but out of admiration and adoration for a God and Father who is so full of love, who pours out His abundance of grace over him in such rich measure.