" Ruth was not swayed by the promise of a better life in her home country of Moab. She rejected the chance to go back “to her people and to her gods” (verse 15); she did not want to return. She is an example of a woman who presses in to know the Lord and His people. In this true story, we are getting a little preview of a resonant biblical melody. Though God loved Israel, He loved others from outside the nation as well. Israel was God’s covenant people; yet Israel could not rightly conclude that God loved only Israelites. His people were bigger and broader than this chosen nation, vital as it was to God’s plan; indeed, as the story went on, figures like Ruth and Rahab show us that many who were not of Israel by birth were actually more “of Israel” spiritually than many Jews by birth. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It