1 Peter 3:4-6
“4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.” – 1 Peter 3:4-6.
Sarah was not a feminist, And neither was Jesus Christ. Sarah’s holy faith was grounded in the character of God and his faithfulness to His promises. This was a work of God’s Spirit in Sarah. Her submission to her husband, was the outworking of God’s Holiness in her conduct.
God adorned Sarah with His imperishable beauty on the inside and it came spilling out towards Abraham outside through “the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” 1 Peter 3:4 .This beauty is what the world wants women to reject outright.
What they do not realize is that, “in God’s sight is very precious” (1 Peter 3:4). What the world loves (autonomy from God in pride), God hates.
God’s Holiness repudiates the world’s vicious attack on His beauty and glory and his rightful desire of it from humanity. Sarah, through the Holy Spirit of God working righteousness in her, was following in the footsteps of Her great, great, great, great, great great, great grandson Jesus Christ as He willfully submitted to God the father.
Sarah wasn’t a feminist, and neither was Jesus Christ. Peter writes just previously in chapter 2:21, “For to this (unjust suffering as servants of God in the world, just like Christ) you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Christ left us an example by entrusting himself to God, whilst dying in our place for all of our unwillingness to humble ourselves and serve God and others. What a wonderful, wonderful savior He is. Truly there is no one like Him.
We emulate what entertains us unfortunately, and Jesus Christ is not entertaining to the church in the west. The reason why Jesus Christ is not entertaining to the church, is because the church is so much like the world in what is entertaining to it, and what it loves.
The church, here in the west, fallen in love with what the world. It looks to the world to tell it what it is most important, instead of to the one who sits on God’s eternal throne, Christ!
The more we see Christ from the scriptures, the more God will change us so that we see Christ’s submission and humility along with God as precious as we ought to.
The church is guilty of its rejection of its suffering servant as He offers up His life in our place because it doesn’t increase our brand and suffering service is not entertaining to us…But it is precious in the sight of God.
To God, Jesus is, “a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ”.
What a gift to women (and men) to walk the road following the Son of God to the cross. What a gift to get the privilege to step in the footsteps of the the eternal Son of God as He suffers and serves God. It is pride that kills a women’s ability to submit to her husband and it is pride that poisons a husbands love for his wife.
I know this is true of me with my wife. Notice Jesus our savior and our example had neither: He had no pride in going to the cross in submission (Philippians 2:1-11) and He poured himself out in sacrificial love for the sake of His prideful bride (Ephesians 5:22 – 33).
It is that pride that killed our savior, it is that pride that He wore as He sacrificially loved God and loved us by humbling Himself and submitting to God out of a deep love and satisfaction in God getting all the glory He rightfully alone deserves.
Christ’s glorious humility is what we get to be a part of. What a sweet sweet blessing from our father. May we cherish Him as we ought to. May God be so gracious and give us a spirit to make us more like Jesus for his glory and for our joy. He is So worthy of everything!
Church, I plead with you along with John, “Do not love the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” 1 John 2:15. The love of the Father is in the God-Man Jesus Christ and we are in Him, and in Him, we are complete as He is complete before the Father of all glory, by God’s grace.
Be encouraged church, Christ is coming soon and He will bring the rule and reign of God almighty as the second and last Adam. He alone is our only hope in this world that is wasting away.
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