Christian Devotional – June 25, 2023

Through Suffering, Day 9

How do you describe beauty? Read 1 Peter 3:1-6.

As Peter transitions from talking about Christ’s sacrifice for the church, he moves to discussing women and their relationships with their husbands. When we think about all that Christ did to provide for and sacrifice for the church, we can see why Jesus chooses to explain the same in terms of the marriage relationship.

Yet, what does truly define beauty? If the relationship is best defined as one of submission and considering others before ourselves, how do we describe a truly beautiful woman? Peter explains that it is not what is outwardly visible that creates and defines beauty, but instead it is the characteristics of the heart that determines someone’s beauty.

How beautiful are we? Many women spend lots of time and money on improving their outward beauty, but what are we doing to improve the inner beauty that Peter defines here? How beautiful are we in the eyes of God?