1 Peter 3:5-6

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Peter reaches back into the Old Testament and points to Sarah. Not because she understood everything perfectly. Not because she never struggled. But because she trusted God enough to travel with Abraham, even when his vision stretched beyond what made sense.

That is important.

When Sarah heard the promise that she would bear a son, she laughed within herself. She knew her age. She knew the facts. She knew how impossible it sounded. And yet Peter still points to her as an example. That tells me the issue was never that she had no questions. The issue was that beneath the questions, she still trusted God.

You need to see this: biblical submission is not pretending everything feels easy. It is not shutting off your mind. It is not acting like fear never shows up. It is choosing to rest in God when you cannot fully sort out what He is doing.

And Abraham was no perfect man. He was a man of faith, but he also had glaring weakness. In Egypt, he failed Sarah badly. He asked her to say she was his sister in order to protect himself. That was not courage. That was fear. Yet even there, God stepped in and protected Sarah.

That matters because Sarah’s security was not really in Abraham’s strength. It was in the Lord’s faithfulness.

A wife is not being called to believe her husband is flawless. She is being called to trust that God is able to lead, guard, and work even while her husband is still a man in process. Like boarding a ship with a captain who may miss a wave or two, her peace is not in the captain’s perfection but in the God who rules the sea.

That changes the tone of the whole passage.

There are moments in a home when a husband carries some burden, dream, or stirring from the Lord, and a wife can instantly see all the reasons it may not work. The cost. The timing. The risk. The uncertainty. Those concerns are real. But there is a difference between offering wisdom and crushing vision. One steadies a man. The other drains him.

Sarah shows another way. She may have laughed. She may not have understood. But she still traveled with Abraham. She still honored him. And as she did, God watched over her.

Don’t miss this: Peter says the holy women of old “trusted in God.” That is the center of everything. The call is not blind trust in a human being. It is confidence in the Lord. And when a woman trusts God, fear does not have to run the house.

That is why Peter adds, “and are not afraid with any amazement.” Fear can make people push back, lash out, or shut down what they do not yet understand. But trust gives a quiet steadiness. It gives room for God to work.

Sarah was not weak.
She was strong in a quiet way.

She was not married to a perfect man.
She was held by a perfect God.

And that kind of trust still brings beauty into a home today.