Chapter 3 - My Daughter, Shall I Not Seek a Place of Rest for You?

Ruth was now tried, and she had proved herself to be faithful in each test. Naomi understood that Ruth was suited for a deeper life. Therefore she undertook the most important and most difficult task of leading her into a deeper rest, to a place of rest with Boaz himself—into his rest as flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, a rest about which it can be said that these two were one flesh.

Ruth had her sins forgiven when she left Moab (the world). She was baptized with the Spirit when she arrived in the land of Judah. But she was elected to be the bride of the man in whose field she had gleaned her ears, because she had endured and was faithful in the land of Judah under the Spirit’s leading.

We who have believed enter that rest (Heb. 4:3), which means that we enter that rest after we have become believers. A soul does not find a place of rest in God, or God’s rest, until he has done God’s will by personal obedience. Personal rest will follow as we are incorporated into His flesh. When Naomi spoke about seeking a place of rest for Ruth, she meant that she would get a husband for her in whose house she could have rest and feel safe, since it would then be her own home. Christ rests in God’s rest since He finished the work that He was given to complete. We enter into His rest by finishing the work that has been given to us to do in the Holy Spirit. This is how we become flesh of His flesh—His bride—and we will then find a place of rest with Him.