Men and women are called to different roles in marriage. Each are called to love one another, but the expression of that love is different based on their differing roles and how a husband and wife may best sanctify each other and point each other to follow and know Jesus. How does the love of Jesus specifically impact a wife's love for her husband? Her love is shown particularly in her submission to and respect for her husband and her fearless confidence in God.

You know, according to the design of our time, we had a Jeff particularly addressing husbands. But as you can see, the love of Jesus is broad, covers so many things, and it really does even define the love of a wife to her husband. But I want to focus my attention on wives and I want to tell you upfront what my overwhelming objective is and that is I pray that the effect of what I say would be peace for you. That it would take you out of your anxiety if you have it. Maybe you don't have it.

But my experience with wives is they often have it. And their anxieties cause them to lose one of the most important things that God has for them. God does desire to put his daughters at rest, to give them the peace that passes all understanding, to deliver them from all of their fears, really to make them fearless women. And I do, I pray for fearless women. I always desired that my daughters would be fearless women because their trust was in God.

So my single objective in everything that I say is to put a wife at rest, that she take a big sigh of relief and recognize from whence her help comes. And so I wanna take us through various passages of scripture. I wanna begin, however, to say something more broadly about a wife's love for her husband. And I want to give you seven ways the Bible teaches a wife how to love her husband. But the last three are the ones I'm going to lean on.

And the first way is her love for him. In Titus chapter 2 verse 4 the Apostle Paul commands the older women to teach the younger wives how to love their husbands. That's what an older woman is supposed to do with her life, is to teach the younger women how to love their husbands. And the second way that the Bible teaches a wife to love her husband is through her fidelity to him and that's why in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 4 we learn that the marriage bed is to be undefiled. And then the third way is by helping him.

Genesis 2, 18, Proverbs 31, 27 makes it clear that God created women and particularly wives to be helpers to their husbands and to help his soul, to help his body, to help his prosperity, to be a help to the whole family through her diligence and wisdom and frugality and I've been so delighted to have a wife like that. And then the fourth way that she loves her husband is by caring for him. You know in 1st Corinthians chapter 7 verse 34 the Apostle Paul is talking about what marriage does to you, how it changes your life. And the Apostle Paul is saying, You know, there's some real advantages to being single because you have single minded devotion. But then he says, if you're married, you know, a husband has to spend time caring for his wife and a wife caring for her husband.

And the language is very beautiful, caring how she may please her husband. Isn't that wonderful? Caring how she might please her husband. So a married woman has a distraction in life. She's supposed to try to figure out how to please her husband.

And so those are four ways that God has commanded that wives love their husbands. But I want to give you three more that I want to really spend our time on. And the first is through her submission to him in Ephesians 5, particularly verse 23. And then her respect for him in Ephesians 5, 33, and then finally her fearlessness before him in 1 Peter 3, 1-6. These are ways that wives love their husbands.

And so I'd like to, as I said, begin with this matter of submission. So I hope your Bibles are open and having found Ephesians 5 verse 22 where we read these words wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord And so he's addressing a woman in a particular condition. She is a wife and her submission is to her own husband. It's not to every man. God prioritizes her relationship with her husband.

He is her head. And other men dare not get in the way of it. Even pastors should be very careful not to get in the way. Pastors should direct them to the word of God. But never to get in the way, particularly in the way of God in that woman's marriage.

And so that's why he says submit to your own husbands. A wife isn't obligated to submit to every man, although she is obligated to submit to the civil government and there are ways that she submits to the elders of local churches, but it's a very different kind of submission in the sense that it's far more broad that her submission is designed for her husband. And this submission can be a struggle and this is how it was in the very beginning. In Genesis chapter 3.15 we learn about the wife of whom God says your desire shall be for your husband and he will rule over you and The idea there is that it's in a wife's inclinations, she has a passion to overwhelm her husband, to dominate him. There's an impulse in a wife to dominate him.

But God, in his wisdom and by his providence has put a husband in the way of her domineering spirit. And so God puts a husband to rule over the wife. You know, God uses this marriage relationship to deal with our sins, particularly besetting sins and this the sin of the desire to dominate A husband is addressed in the marriage relationship. And it's a beautiful thing to find a woman who is at peace. And her domineering spirit is subdued.

And she finds herself at rest. Maybe a little bit like the Gadarene demoniac, you know, who is finally clothed and in his right mind. And, but, But the truth is, the truth is, when we read about, when we read this word wives submit to your own husbands, there's something that we have to recognize about every, every aspect of society and that is submission must exist for any effort to go forward in a government in a business in any relationship there must be some order and authority This word that the Apostle Paul uses has nothing to do with superiority. It really only has to do with order and authority. You know, it doesn't have...

There's no implication that a husband is smarter than his wife, or wiser than his wife, or more godly than his wife. It's simply a matter of order and authority. You know, most men, most honest men recognize that their wives exceed them in many areas. Sometimes in wisdom, sometimes in just pure brain power. Okay?

They have better minds than their husbands. And a husband, you know, is wise to recognize that, not so, think so highly of himself, and to recognize the gift that God's given him. So the word when God calls wives to submit he's not calling them to lay aside who they are or what they are and He's not calling them to call themselves stupid. But he's actually just setting forth authority. Without authority there's chaos and that's why you find authorities that are ordained by God in every realm of society.

You have authority in the state, which is ordained by God. Romans 13 says that every authority has been ordained by God, placed there by God. And then you have authorities in work and Ephesians chapter six and other places recognize that there is authority in work and that that men particularly should submit to themselves submit themselves to their masters and do what they're supposed to do. There's authority. If there's no authority in work, there's chaos.

I don't know if any of you have ever tried to run a company without any authority. You will have chaos and nothing will get done of any value. It's the same thing in the church where there is authority vested in officers in the church called elders. And there's also authority in marriage. So when we get to this matter of marriage, we shouldn't think this is just some odd category.

There's a, God put authority everywhere. We shouldn't be surprised that he puts it in marriage. He actually puts order and authority in marriage. And now in this passage in Ephesians chapter 5, this submission is not something that is demanded, but it's something that is given. That's the word that the Apostle Paul uses is an interesting word because it is something that she does out of her volition.

It is something that she gives. And George Swinik, the English Puritan, spoke of this matter of submission. He says, an obedient wife is the likeliest woman in the world to command her husband. In other words, a woman has far more influence over her husband when she submits to him. Amen.

That's so true. The freest women I've ever known, the happiest women I've ever known, are the women who've laid that issue to rest that they're going to submit to their husbands. And They end up finding out that they end up getting a husband who listens to them. And that's why George Twinix said it the way he did that the likeliest woman in the world to command her husband is the obedient woman. And you find the same idea with husbands as well.

You know, the Apostle Paul said, he who loves his wife loves himself. In other words, if you love that woman, it's gonna come back to you. And so this relationship here has to do with order and authority first of all. There must be an authority and there and and also it's a it's an authority that is granted. If If authority is not granted to the husband, you also get chaos and you get really a collapse of the whole order.

If you look at Ephesians 5, it's very interesting to notice the order of which the Apostle Paul structures his instruction. I've always thought it was strange that it began with the wife. You would think that he would begin with the head, right, with the husband, but he doesn't begin with the husband. I believe it was William Gogue who proposes the idea, and this is just speculation, that the reason the Apostle Paul did that the reason he started with wives is that if you don't have a submissive wife you will have no authority in the home so he starts with a wife because the authority in the home falls apart without it. So he begins with her.

If that's not set in place, there's no hope for the family, okay? And so he perhaps, perhaps begins that way. And you know this obedience is as unto the Lord. That's really important to recognize. In other words to obey her husband is to obey Christ.

Okay. And she's obeying Christ's command when she obeys her husband. Now Let me give it to you in a syllogism. And I'm going to give you two syllogisms to just help us to try to grasp what the apostle is saying. God commands a wife to obey her husband, okay.

God commands a wife. And a wife Obeys her husband, but in doing so, she's obeying the Lord. That's the idea. And it may be another way to think about it is is in terms of paying taxes. The government commands you to pay taxes, right?

So when you pay your taxes, you're obeying the Lord. That's how it works. So a wife when she submits to her husband is actually simultaneously submitting to the Lord because she's submitting to a command of the Lord in that way. Now, the submission here that is spoken of is something that is given to an imperfect authority. All authorities are imperfect.

Now we're going to get to verse 33 in a minute. In fact, I think it might be good to go to verse 33 now. And I'd like to illustrate a word that's used here. He says, nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Now, if you look at the structure and the logic of the Apostle Paul's instruction here, he speaks to the husband and the wife and he speaks to them kind of together, but then he almost separates them.

And he says, let each one of you in particular, Like you wives, I want you to hear this, forget your husband. Forget who he is, forget what he does, forget him. And he turns to the husbands and he says, forget her. This is for you. It doesn't matter what she is, it doesn't matter what she said, it doesn't matter what she doesn't, here's what you do.

And so he separates them and he says, nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his wife as himself, that's what husbands are supposed to do, regardless of how horrific or hormonal or whatever it is she is, you love her. Love his own wife as himself. And then to the wife He says, let the wife see that she respects her husband. So this is a command. At the very beginning in the introduction to this time, I said something like there are two things that are pivotal.

One is becoming like Christ and the other is obeying the commands. This is a command, okay? Let the wife see that she respect her husband. Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. These are the commands.

So while one is becoming like Christ, there's a calibration that takes place. A wife and a husband have to be calibrated by commands of God. We don't throw out the commands of God because our hearts are right. Our hearts are actually directed by the commands of God. That's the way, that's the real world by the way, okay.

And that's how things actually work right. You have the heart and you have a command and the command draws the heart, okay. So it's interesting that he uses the word respect. And there are two ways that this word is translated. It's the word phobos.

You probably recognize the English word phobia, fear, OK. That's the word that he uses, fear. Now this word is actually used in different ways. There is one kind of fear and there's another kind. There is a terrified fear and there's a reverential fear.

This is not a terrified fear. It can't be. Because of the other commands of the husband. To love his wife and things like that. So it's not a kind of terrifying fear.

It's the pleasing fear of the fear of God. Because you love him you want to do what he wants you to do because you you believe he's the very best you want to follow him it's and you fear disobeying him you fear it because you see how damaging it is and what a crime it is against God. And so it's a pleasing fear in a way. You want to obey him because he's so good. And so this is a deferential kind of fear.

And one of the great challenges that wives often have is respecting their husbands. And When it comes to authorities, it is not the quality of the authority that qualifies the respect of a wife. And like for, I'll just give you an example in the civil government. Like if we turned to, and I will turn to it, in 1 Peter chapter two verse 17, there's a command. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

Now I just want to focus on honor the king but we could back up into each one of these relationships, people, the brotherhood and God. Now, but I want to use the king as the illustration for the honor toward a king as an illustration for the kind of honor that a wife owes her husband. When Peter is commanding to honor the king, he's not saying that the king needs to change. He's saying that your heart needs to change toward the king. Now most kings don't have everything in order.

You know we live in a very dishonorable society today where we have people who dishonor the king. But they don't understand respect and authority. They don't understand what it means to honor the king. To honor the king doesn't mean that you endorse the king, it doesn't mean that you believe he's perfect. But the problem here in this passage is not with the king.

That's not the problem. Because kings are imperfect authorities, as is every authority. The problem is with the heart of the person who is a subject in the kingdom and a wife's Respect is of the very same classification in this sense. The respect that God commands a wife to have for her husband is not based on the perfections of her husband. And when God says to a wife, respect your husband, he's not addressing the husband, he's addressing the heart of the wife.

And the chief reason that wives don't respect their husbands is because of the quality of their lives. But a wife needs to recognize how contrary her spirit is compared to the way that God has structured really all of society. When the Bible says to obey your masters, it's not a commentary on the quality of the master. In fact, I think there's an assumption that the master's doing some things that really aren't all that good. And men struggle with this in their work.

They say, well, if my boss would be honorable, I could honor him. Well, that's a complete corruption of the way that God has ordered the Christian life. Let the pagans dishonor everyone. But the Christians have no business doing that. You know, it's really not appropriate, you know, to create a target and put the president's face in it.

It's really not appropriate to do that. That's not honoring the king. Because God says, actually you have a responsibility toward the king and that is to honor him. It doesn't mean you have to agree with him And you may even want to dialogue with him, but there's a fundamental call of honor in every sphere of authority and the sphere of authority that a husband commands in the home is not any different. So when God says to a wife, respect your husband, let the wife see that she respects her husband, he's not talking about the husband, He's talking about the heart of the wife.

Remember at the beginning of the session I said that my chief objective was to set wives at rest. That they wouldn't worry so much about the flaws of their husbands. But they would worry more about their hearts toward their husbands who actually are imperfect authorities. No wife ever got a perfect authority. No children ever got perfect parents.

No workers ever got perfect bosses. No subjects in the kingdom ever got perfect kings. So that's reality, okay, and God is so kind to help us to work within the way things really are. God is true, you know, he describes life the way it is, and he really blows the smoke of confusion about the way things are really structured in the world. But it's God who structured this world this way.

And a wife will never be happy until she deals with her own heart of lack of reverence toward her husband. Her problem, her chief problem, is not her husband. Her chief problem is her dishonorable heart. And God desires to deal with women in the area of their weakness. And it's possible that God deals with this area of weakness in a wife.

You know, the Bible says that A woman is a weaker vessel. We know men and women are different. I think that should be obvious. They're different emotionally. They're different physically.

They're different in so many ways. And God pinpoints particular sin susceptibilities in wives. And he also pinpoints particular sin susceptibilities in husbands. We just spent an hour dealing with that, particularly in the matter of love. So God is wise in putting his finger in the wound.

With a wife, it's often, not exclusively, respect and the discontentment that comes from it. With a husband, it most likely has to do with his selfishness and his lack of love. These are the two gigantic issues that face every marriage. And so, you know, after here, you know, dealing with this word submit in Ephesians 5 and then this word respect in Ephesians 5, 33, I want to turn us to 1 Peter chapter 3. And I'd like to read from verses 1 to 6 but I want to tip you off, I'm headed to verse 6.

I can't wait to get to verse 6, OK? Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands. And by the way, he has just spoken about submission in the civil realm, likewise. So in other words, submission is something that's part of every realm of authority. Likewise, be submissive to your own husbands that even if some do not obey the word, they without a word may be won by the conduct of their wives.

So he's talking about a situation where a husband is disobeying the word of God, and you have this Christian wife, and she's caught in this world where her husband is disobeying the Word of God. And it's she's struggling with it for sure And the apostle here comes and instructs her how to deal with it. How do you deal with that situation when your husband is disobedient to the word? And his answer is very surprising. It's completely countercultural.

And it's completely nonintuitive because it comes from a different kingdom. It comes from heaven. It draws you into things that are of heavenly, not earthly. So God is rescuing women from the ways of this world, the ways of her friends and the ways of her corrupt heart. He's rescuing women from their inclinations.

This is what God does with his commands. He rescues you, he pulls you out of your ways. This is why commands are so good. The church today that says the commands don't mean anything, it's only grace, are absolutely defying almost everything that the Word of God teaches. Commands are good.

They really are. Well, that's why Paul said, you know, the law is good as long as one uses it lawfully. It's good. Paul said, the law is holy, just and good. So We need to dispense with the idea that commands are bad.

Commands are actually good because they draw you out of your corrupt ways. And that's exactly what Peter is implying here in these verses where you have a wife who has a husband who has not obeying the word but they without a word may be won by the conduct of their wives. Notice conduct is a wife's greatest weapon against a husband who's disobeying. When they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear and then he says don't try to manipulate him with your body and your clothing and your beauty. Forget that.

Don't try to move him that way. Not by your adornment, which is merely outward, arranging your hair, wearing gold, putting on fine apparel. In other words, don't try to manipulate him with your body. Women can use their bodies to manipulate their husbands. He says don't do that.

Rather, verse four, let it be the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is very precious in the sight of God. Now here's one thing this means. You can't change your husband with your words. That's not the way that God has designed it. Your husband doesn't need to change but there's a way that God has designed a wife with a spirit of respect to change your husband but it's not what you think it is.

It's not by nailing him to the wall, it's not by complaining, it's not by dripping and dripping and dripping and constantly reminding him and staying on his case. That's not how it works. Okay. But you know unfortunately the inclination of most wives is to do that is to try to do it that way. Let's try to do it with their words and the Apostle Paul say no do with your holiness let it be the hidden person of the heart if you have a disobedient husband what do you do cultivate the hidden person of the heart with the glory of Jesus Christ prepare your heart deal with yourself it's not him that's the problem that You must deal with this matter of your heart.

Hearts being poisoned. You know sin begets sin. When a husband disobeys the word it it actually draws sin up from the soul of a wife and attempts her wife to sin by badgering her husband and becoming an offense to him. And I think one of the things that the apostle Paul is making very clear is you can't change him not by criticizing him. So don't do that.

I don't believe that this means that a woman can't talk to her husband about her sins. I don't believe that's what he's saying here. I think he's talking about this relentless dissatisfaction that drives a woman to continue to poke at her husband and his defects. I believe that's what he's talking about because of what else the Bible says. You know, a wife is a helper.

She's a little bit like the Holy Spirit. She's called alongside to help. And she can help her husband with words, but she has to be very careful that she's not just becoming a dripping, a dripping of dissatisfaction And, you know, heartbreak over her husband's disobedience to the word. This passage assumes that you're going to, as a wife, experience moments where you think your husband's disobeying the word of God. Do you realize he's assuming that that's gonna happen in a marriage?

He's assuming that. So if you're a wife here and you see, well, you know, my husband is disobedient to the word here and he's disobedient to the word here, the Lord has given you a way to deal with it right here. And it's not becoming a constant drip of criticism toward him. You can't change your husband, but God can. And holy women of God who set all their hope in God are the greatest helps toward a husband who's disobedient toward the word.

Now, in saying that, I wanna say, I'm grateful for the times my wife has come to me and she's used words to point out my sin. I really am thankful for that. I want her to do that. But I'll tell you this, she is not a drip. She tells me what she thinks and she lets it go.

It's as if she's planted the seed and now God is going to have to water that seed. That's how my wife deals with me. But she speaks straight to me. And it's good. I don't want wives walking out of here thinking, what, I can't say anything to my husband?

Please don't walk out with that conclusion. I think that's wrong. I think that defies lots of other things in the Bible. You're not only husband and wife, you're also brother and sister. You are also members of the body of Christ.

And members of the body of Christ can talk to each other. We can. So a wife should do that. She should recognize that she is also a sister, not just a wife. So I just don't want to be misunderstood here, but it's very clear that When a husband is disobeying, it's the hidden person of the heart which ought to be her greatest focus, to draw near to Jesus Christ like never before and to pray for him and to live holy.

And then he gives an illustration at the very end. Verse 6. As Sarah, well no let's go to verse 5. For in this manner in former times the holy women who trusted God also adorned themselves being submissive to their own husbands. He's saying several things in this verse.

One is, there are actually women who've done this. Like, you can do it. Somebody said this to the husbands in the last session. You can do this, you can. And there are women who adorn themselves this way.

They really did it. There's a victory out there for a wife. It's not a hopeless situation. They were submissive to their own husbands and they had the adornment of the beauty of Jesus Christ. And then in verse six, he narrows this down to Sarah and Abraham as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord.

Now if you know anything about Abraham, you know that Abraham didn't always function as a perfect authority. He actually subjected his wife to some dangerous things, like really dangerous. And yet God By his Holy Spirit did a work in his wife and she obeyed him calling him Lord In other words, she was like the person that's spoken of in Ephesians 5 She was obeying her husband as unto the Lord. The Lord commanded her to obey her husband and her husband commanded her and she was obeying the Lord as she obeyed Abraham. That's exactly what Sarah did by calling him Lord.

And you know, and here you see a completely otherworldly way of living to proverbially call your husband Lord. You know most women out there don't want to hear you say that. Now I don't recall any particular time that Deborah has called me Lord but she treats me like it in a lot of ways, you know. I don't think it means that you should now, you know, all the women should start calling their husbands lord, you know. Like Donna, I think that you should start calling your husband Lord from now on.

Sounds pretty awesome, yeah. Yeah. But you get the idea, right? There's a respect that is so far beyond the kind of respect that we find in our culture. This is otherworldly.

This is from heaven. This is not out of your soul. This is not out of this culture at all. This is from the culture of heaven. And God so desires to draw us into his culture.

He has the most beautiful culture. And this is true in every area of life. God is always calling us out of our own cultures, our own politics, our own everything, you know. And But a wife can't change her husband the way she thinks she can. And it really bears witness to that universal principle, a gentle answer turns away wrath.

And there's no quicker way to suck the strength and the vision and the joy out of a man than to disrespect him. Every wife needs to understand that. When disrespect grows in your heart, you are killing that man. You're killing him. Are any of you killing your husbands?

Because you're just waiting for them to get something right before you respect them. If you're waiting, like right now in this room, if you're waiting for him to get something right so that you can respect him, you're killing him. You're killing his vision, his joy, and you're also not recognizing that there is a Holy Spirit who can move him and you're not it. And you know, respect will make him want to change and it'll help him to resolve to keep changing in general, okay. You know, finding what you admire in your husband will inspire him and it'll help him to aspire.

It'll help him. This is one way that a wife helps her husband is by respecting him, not by nailing him to the wall for his 10 defects in his personality or what he's doing with money or what he's doing with his whatever. Again, the Apostle Paul is not saying that this husband is perfect, okay. The husband has a problem. He has a problem with God.

He is disobedient to the Word of God. That is gigantic and there's you know I think one thing that this implies is that God is going to deal with him and you're not the Holy Spirit because you can't change him. And she knows that God can do more in a man's heart in a second than she can do in a thousand words. And it's very empowering to him. She has a meek and a quiet spirit and she answers her husband with respect and humility and gentleness and when she does that it actually opens doors for her to talk more deeply with him if she treats him that way.

If she does it with pride or rancor or rage then it'll only cause alienation. When a woman is enraged, it's very difficult for a husband to hear. You've probably seen this, wives. When you start talking hot, hotly against your husband, his eyes glaze over. Now sometimes you can see it, but I guarantee you most of the time his heart's glazing over.

Most of the time you can see it in his eyes and he starts to fidget, you know, and he wants to move on to the next thing. That's because an enraged woman is very difficult for a husband to hear. And that's really true in every relationship, which is why you have that principle, a gentle answer turns away wrath. That's just the way it is in all relationships. Wives especially need to recognize that.

But her respect and her quietness is the greatest leverage point that she has with her husband and it'll inspire faith in him and encourage him to change. Winning him without a word. Not without word apparel, not with manipulation, not with brilliant arguments. Now, she's not like the pagan women who are bent on going and going after their way. She's dealing with her husband in an otherworldly way.

She doesn't speak to her husband the way the other women do. And why is that? There's a very simple reason. She's getting her lines from heaven. She realizes she's not her own.

She's living out a story that's not even her own. It's about glorifying Jesus Christ. So she gets her lines from God, not from the other pagan women and not from all the terrible, ridiculous counselors that are out there today for women. She's getting them from God. And she wants less of herself and she wants more of the Lord Jesus Christ and the effect of that on her is so powerful it's so consoling it's so good for her that it says here she's not frightened by any fear.

That's in 1st Peter 3. She's not frightened by any fear. She's a fearless woman. You can't kill her happiness because her happiness is in Jesus Christ. Her confidence is in God.

She believes that God is so much bigger than her husband. Her husband is a gnat compared to God. And she trusts God. And as a result, she's free to love her husband. She's free to be to him what she was designed to be a helper with a gentle and quiet spirit who cares for him who loves him and you know I pray that God would give his church the mightiest, most fearless whim in the world has ever seen.

And you can see the peace in their eyes. You can see that their contentment is in their savior, that they really believe that God is and he is a rewarder of those who seek Him. When a wife's chief reward is in heaven, she's free, she's completely free to love her husband and to be happy in this world. Because as it turns out, God didn't give her a perfect husband. He didn't give her a perfect king.

He didn't give the church perfect elders. And He didn't give her a perfect husband. And that's the way God designed it, for his own glory. And I believe that God has done that so that those who love the Lord Jesus Christ would progressively learn how to place all their trust in him. That Christ And Christ alone would be their help and their sustenance and their joy.

And as a result of that, they are able to live happily and independently and at peace in this world, regardless of what's going on in their husband's life. May your tribe increase. Would you pray with me? Lord we pray that you would help us to love your commands and to gravitate toward them, to be transformed by them. And I pray also that you would give a great gift to these women who are here.

That you would help them to be the happiest women who ever lived. The most peaceful and stately women. The very strongest, fearless women who trust in you and are not frightened by any fear. Amen.