What kind of woman does God commend? Of what woman might God say, “Her. She is a woman after my own heart. I commend that woman as an example of a holy, godly Christian. I am not ashamed to be called her God.”
The Scripture tells us of one such woman, and her name is Sarah. Yes, Sarah the wife of Abraham the Patriarch: Sarah, the barren woman, the quite jealous woman, the doubting woman, the harsh woman, the lying woman, the laughing woman.
God points us to Sarah as an example of a woman with whom He was pleased–a woman who receives commendation in both 1 Peter 3 and Hebrews 11–because of her faith in the God of the promises.
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