Jael

"Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked for water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead." (vss. 24-27). Jael is the only person mentioned, but what praise she receives! She illustrates what I was saying before about the greatest rewards perhaps being given to a sister hidden, working behind the scenes. What a contrast she is to the inhabitants of Meroz. They lived in cedar palaces, but she lived only in a "tent." She must not have had much of this world's resources, but she did what she could and helped win the battle. The point I want to emphasize here is that she served the Lord in the place He put her, and she was "blessed above women" because of it. She did not need to go to a distant land to serve the Lord and receive this great praise. She did it in her own home!