About our guest this week:
Robyn McKelvy is a pastor’s wife and speaker, as well as an author of a few little books on marriage topics. She and her husband Ray have ten children and live in the Nashville, TN area, where Ray pastors Christ for the Nations Church.
I first heard of Robyn through the Revive Our Hearts conferences, where she has spoken a few times. She’s a gracious speaker, who shares from her own experiences and weaves God’s truth in clearly.
Thank you again for joining us for this episode. If you’d like to learn more from Robyn, you can find her on Facebook, where she shares how she and her husband Ray are teaching and serving.
We originally heard of Robyn through the Revive Our Hearts conference in 2017 (video posted below). You can locate her other talks from past Revive Our Hearts conferences here.
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Devotional transcript:
Listen to Peter’s encouragement to faithful women: 1 Peter 3:4-5 ESV – “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. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands…”
John Piper gave a helpful message on this passage several years ago, sharing that Peter unpacks this idea of submission through God’s redemptive history. Some of his main points are very helpful to note
He says,
“Hope in God in the root of everything else for the woman of faith. (1 Peter 3:5)
Their hope sets them apart for God in holiness. (1 Peter 3:5)
Their hope also frees them to be fearless, which makes them inexplicable to the world. (1 Peter 3:6)
Her life overflows with good deeds, which provides a consistent testimony to her hope. (1 Peter 3:6)
Finally, she submits to her husband in reverence to God. (1 Peter 3:5)”
Whether submission is a familiar idea that you feel comfortable with, or you learned something new today, or you had something clarified for you, this is our prayer for you:
May the Lord encourage your heart as you hope in him. May you be freed to be fearless in Christ, knowing you belong to the Lord and your conduct testifies of God’s work in you and your reverence for him. May you search out God’s ways, and courageously face the world armed with his truth.
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