Day 2
- Pray - Invite the Lord into your time of personal study and reflection.
- Read 1 Peter 3 - Read slowly to ensure a thorough reading and thoughtful consideration
- Reread 1 Peter 3:1-7 - Look for specific instructions to wives and husbands. What are some characteristics of godly wives? Godly husbands?
- Apply - How do these characteristics strike you? Do you feel encouraged? Convicted? Challenged? What can you do with these instructions?
- Comment - Let us know how you plan to put this new information into your life.
Enjoy your study time, y'all! I can't wait for the moment when life slows down enough for me to share with you all of the insights the Lord is giving me. What a mighty God we serve!
Two things stuck with me concerning the instructions to husbands and wives:
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2. Evidently, how a man treats his wife affects his prayer life. That's a big one, isn't it? It shows how serious the instructions are regarding how we treat one another in the marriage relationship.
When I read this, I am so encouraged. God's Word is full of encouragement in areas where the words is anything but that. I love the command and priveledge to show my love for my husband openly through my trust and admiration for his God-given role as the leader in our home. I am thankful for it. Trusting him is a safe place and one that brings great security and peace. This is not natural for me but as I've walked with the Lord, He has not only given me a willingness to accept His roles in a Godly home, but a deep, deep appreciation for them. It is a blessing to have a husband leading me through this life, not a curse/loss of independence as the world seems to say. Nothing about our Christian life is independent. To even come to Christ, we MUST be a DEPENDENT people, dependent on Christ alone for first, our sanctification, and then following that, our purification. It is then in that purification process that I have found it to be easier and more and more exciting to submit my trust my heavenly father, who has called me to submit my trust to my precious husband. I can honestly say, there is no other thing that makes me feel more beautiful, then when I support, encourage and trust him, as I know he is trusting HIM. Ahhh, the harmony of a Godly marriage contains beauty beyond words. A beauty only the sanctified can abtain and a beauty only the purified can appreciate. Oh how thankful I am for His work in my heart.
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