Baoz Godliness

3 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home^[a] for you, where you will be well provided for. ² Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. ³ Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. ⁴ When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

⁵ “I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered. ⁶ So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.
⁷ When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. ⁸ In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
⁹ “Who are you?” he asked.
“I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer^[b] of our family.”
¹⁰ “The Lord bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. ¹¹ And now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. ¹² Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. ¹³ Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”
¹⁴ So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
¹⁵ He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he^[c] went back to town.

 We see here that Ruth is finding a kinsman to get redeemed. In that times, when a husband dies; the widow can find a redeemer and ask that kinsman to redeem her. It is the same as getting another husband after your husband has died. But the condition is that the husband must be of blood connection to the seeker. 

Baoz demonstrated his Godliness by not despising, condemning or taking advantage of Ruth. How many guys today can resist temptation when a female lay at his feet? Not many. If you think that it is because we are in 2 different eras, and the circumstances are different, you are wrong. People are as sinful. Regardless of the generation, people are still people. We have the sinful nature in us. So if Baoz can resist temptation, we all can. Baoz did not just stop there, he went on to honour her and her rights by promising her that he would find a guardian-redeemer for her. And beyond that, he gave her 6 measures of barley  for her mother as a gift. 

Subsequently after that, He redeemed Ruth, her mother and the estate. Such is exemplary conduct that we all should follow. Resist worldly temptations and look at God's goodness.