"Then Boaz said to Ruth, 'Listen carefully, my daughter.  Do not go to glean in another field; furthermore, do not go on from this one, but stay here with my maids.  Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them.  Indeed, I nave commanded the servants not to touch you.  When you are thirsty, go to the water jars and drink from what the servants draw.'  Then she fell to her face bowing to the ground and said to him, 'Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?'  And Boaz answered and said to her, 'All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.  May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.'  Then she said, 'I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed spoke kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.'"

Ruth is correct in her astonishment.  She does not expect Boaz to be kind to her because she is a foreigner.  We all have a little elite-ism within us, and the Hebrew people were no exception. 

But if you look at Genesis chapter 12, the Abramic covenant, we find this attitude has a check:  God says, 'I will bless those who you bless...'

Boaz is displaying the better part of this covenant.  He does not care that Ruth is from another land - he wants to show the benefit of a great God.

This is where we see Jesus.  Jesus accepts us no matter what.  He loves us whether we are Jew or Greek, rich or poor, saint or sinner...

The church today needs more Boazes.  People who love others regardless of form, because that is the way that God loves us.