Did you find Boaz? Check out who his mother was. God continues throughout the Old Testament to build a lineage for His son that shows His heart for all people. Remember—Rahab was not an Israelite. She had been a citizen of Jericho before it fell, yet God used her, a Canaanite. And you can see that God uses Ruth, Obed’s mother (we read about his birth in Ruth 4) to continue this line, even though she is a Moabite. The presence of each of these Gentile ladies reminds us that God has always cared for all of creation—that as Galatians 3:28 says, “there is neither Jew nor Greek...for we are all one in Christ Jesus.”