1 Peter 3

Wives,

Last week's lesson from 1 Peter Chapter 3 was for you!! Actually if you do everything that Peter talks about then really your husbands would be the beneficiary.

Any way we began our lesson talking about his first piece of advice to wives, "Analyze Your Actions".

Verses 1 and 2 suggest that if you learn to submit to your husband like a slave to her master then you will allow God to use your action of submission to change your husband into the man that God wants him to be.

The next area of concern may fit under the heading of "Watch Your Adornment".

Peter talked about how important it is for a wife to have balance in her physical appearance.
If a women becomes preoccupied with how she looks she will become insecure and will be constantly looking for reaffirmations that her "beauty" has not faded.

On the other hand if a woman does not take proper care of her physical appearance she is sending a message to her husband that she does not value herself or that she takes her husband for granted.

The key to this thought is proper balance before God.

The third area of advice is, "Check Your Attitude".

Verse 4 introduces the thought of godly "beauty". Peter talks about a "gentle quiet spirit" which is of great value in God's sight. You notice that physical beauty is never mentioned by God as something that a wife should seek and the good news is that while physical beauty fades with age the inner beauty that Peter talks about never fades but is imperishable.

The final piece of advice found in verses 5 & 6 is, "Evaluate Your Attention".

Putting on this inner beauty takes a good deal of thought and is largely achieved by submission. If a wife will learn the lesson of submission then she will discover this gentle quiet spirit as a byproduct of her devotion to God.

We closed our discussion with the conclusion that attaining the character of a gentle quiet spirit is the most attractive "beauty treatment" that a wife can "put on".

Wives, if you were not able to attend last Sunday then call and talk to one of your female classmates and they can fill in the blanks on all that we talked about.

Your homework wives is to post a helpful piece of advice on our blog. Make it something practical that you have learned from your marriage experience. It may be a "don't do this" type of experience or it may be a "this is what I learned that helped our relationship".

Husbands, next week we start our study on what Peter has to tell us about our part in our marriage relationship. God used verse 7 of Chapter 3 to dramatically transform my attitude about my relationship to my wife. There is a truth contained in this verse that is very damning if we fail to apply it to our marriage.

Bonus Question

How do we know that Peter had a wife?

Look forward to seeing you all Sunday.
randy