By Elizabeth Prata
So now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you say, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence. (Ruth 3:11).
An excellent wife, who can find her? For her worth is far above jewels. (Proverbs 31:10)
When I was a kid in school, the best thing you could earn from the teacher was a gold star with the word “excellent!” next to it. I worked toward that all the time. Who doesn’t like some affirmation! I do, I do! I loved it when my teacher deemed my work of top quality and stuck that sought-after star on the top of the paper.
How much more should we seek excellence as Christian women? We would love to have that affirmation from Jesus, our ultimate teacher! He is the ultimate everything. And the excellence there in the verses above doesn’t mean only the work women produce, but the moral character they exhibit.
Strong’s defines the word excellent in the Ruth verse as “ability, efficiency, often involving moral worth.”
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