Meaning of Relief

[By coming to a deep mountain area memorizing tens and thousands of Buddhist literature, will this man be able to find rest?]

Ruth 2:12

"May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. ”

We can find the meaning of relief in the word 'refuge'.
Refuge refers to the place where you find yourself safe from the zone where war is raging.

By definition war involves conflcts between good and evil. The two (good and evil) forces are not going to come to rest in so long as one is exposed to the two coming in conflicts and warring against each other.

Upon falling man came to come and live under this war zone. The key characteristics of a man living in this war zone is 'restlessness'.

All the descendants of the first man Adam endeavoured to find rest from the restlessness, and yet no one was, has been, or is able to find rest (or peace) on his or her own, for it is only when one comes back to the Father under whose wings alone one can find true peace.

Elimelech and his two sons experienced this first hand. So was the case with Naomi and her two daughters in law.

But since Naomi decided to come to Bethlehem, the house of bread, and inasmuch as Ruth clung to her, and followed all the way to Bethlehem, with the firm decision to come to not just Ruth's home town but also [this is important and crititical to getting true relief of a soul being exposed to the warring state] the God of Israel, Boaz saw that indeed Ruth came under the wings of the God of Israel, that he blessed her saying, "...under whose wings you have come to take refuge."

Notice that Ruth 2:12 talks about provision beginning and the source of provision. In 12a, Boaz talks about beginning of provision (repayment and reward), and 12b describes the source of provision that is, the wings of the God of Boaz.

Boaz is the prefigure of Jesus the Savior who came to destroy the work of the devil and open the wat to the Father. In Jesus alone one can find true rest (or relief).

Speaking of this transaction Jesus said, "All who are weary and burdened, come to me. I will give you rest." Looking forward to the relief found in the Lord, Isaiah said, "Repentance and rest is your salvation, quietness and truyst is your strength." Isaiah 30:15

So relief begins and ends with one coming to and abiding in Jesus for good.

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