God’s understanding of beautiful is often different to ours, isn’t it? We talked yesterday about the things God sees as beautiful.
The passage written to women in 1 Peter 3:1-6 also talks about beauty. Verse 5 says: “This is how long ago the holy women who trusted God used to make themselves beautiful: They submitted to their husbands” (Beck). Wow, that’s different, isn’t it?
The William Barclay’s translation says: “Your BEAUTY must be the BEAUTY of your inner character and personality. It must consist of a gentle and serene character, a BEAUTY which the years cannot wither, for in God’s sight that is what is really precious. This was the BEAUTY with which once upon a time consecrated women, whose hopes were set on God, adorned themselves. They accepted the authority of their husbands.”
We live in a society of rebellion towards men, in fact toward all authority. Many modern women do not want to submit to anyone or anything! This is the same spirit of Lucifer who was cast out of Heaven because he did not want to submit to authority of God but wanted to be like God himself. It is an ugly thing and always ends in destruction, the destruction of marriage, home, and family.
But God says that submission is a beautiful thing. I wonder . . . do we think like God thinks? Or do we embrace the thinking of the enemy?
Do you notice that it talks about the women who lived “once upon a time”? Peter was talking about women who lived two thousand years previously. To us they are women who lived four thousand years ago. Our generation is completely opposite to these women.
And yet who is right? God’s Word never changes. It is an eternal (and therefore never goes out of date) and was given for every generation.
Psalm 119:160 says: “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.” The margin of my Bibles says: “The beginning of thy word is true.”
I notice the last verse of 1 Peter 3 where it says that all the angels and authorities in heaven are subject to God and to Christ. What about on earth?
Are you living a beautiful life today?
Love from Nancy Campbell
Painting: Leonid Pavlovich Baranov
Do you love beautiful things? I know you do.
Mother, you are the backbone of the nation! You are the greatest threat to those who want to turn this nation away from God’s ways. As you pour out your life to nurture, train, and educate your children, you determine the course of this nation and even the world.
Do know the story of Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian? When he heard that the palace officials had put Jeremiah the prophet in the dungeon and he was sinking in the thick mire (and would most probably die) he rushed to the king and boldly pleaded for permission to rescue Jeremiah.
God demands honor and respect. He established that husbands are to be respected. He also ordained that fathers and mothers who parent on His behalf, should receive honor and respect. The Scriptures command that fathers and mothers are to be obeyed, honored, and feared.
“A person’s a person no matter how small.” Greatgrandbaby Warren already beginning his ministry to speak for life! 
As I look at this beautiful pairing of a mother and baby I am thinking of a message I have just listened to of a young teenager with cancer who is fighting for his life. Jeremiah Thomas speaks a message to his generation a out abortion. He speaks tough words, but they are not wrong when he says that abortion makes mothers murderers and men wimps. You can hear his message at Penny Lea Ministries. 
No matter how big the storm He is with you. Read Isaiah 43:2 again.
Dear mother, you have the wonderful privilege of showing to the world what God is like.
Does your heart need cheering up today? There is only one who can truly cheer you in the depths of your soul. His name is Jesus.
What kind of aromas fill your home? Sweet or bad smells? The flesh gives off sour, bitter, grumpy, and horrible smells, doesn't it? They make everyone in the home feel bad and want to run!
“Let there be thankfulness to God” (Ephesians 5:4 (NLT).
“WE DO NOT LOSE HEART!” This was Paul’s confession In the midst of "afflictions, hardships, distresses, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness and hunger" (2 Corinthians 6:4-10, 16-18; 11:23-29; and 12:10).
Are you a bubbling fountain of life to your husband and children?
THE PRECIOUSNESS OF LIFE versus cold-blooded murder. The RHA which New York governor, Cuomo, signed into law allows precious human beings to be murdered in the womb up to the time of birth. No God-fearing person can stay silent. We are told to ABHOR evil (Romans 12:11). That means to shudder with horror! Life begins at conception and is a separate human being than the mother. The baby has a different DNA than the mother! To kill a baby at any time in the womb is murder and nothing less. Let’s not be duped and deceived. 
Mother, you are the watch dog of your children--body, soul, and spirit.
Motherhood is beautiful—tender, passionate, powerful, protecting, emotional, the most challenging and heart-wrenching of all careers—but the glory of womanhood. P.S. Would you like to add some more descriptions? 
Perhaps you are sitting on your rocking chair and nursing your baby as you read this post. What a powerful work you are doing. You are not only nurturing and comforting your baby, you are not only preserving your own body, but you are revealing the character of God. What could be more beautiful and powerful?
Here’s some good questions to ask yourself about your marriage . . .