What if the foundation your marriage needs isn't a stronger husband, better circumstances, or even a stronger marriage — but a stronger trust in God?

That's the thread Peter has been weaving through two entire chapters, and we pick it up right where Part 1 left off. Governments can be unjust. Servants can be mistreated. Wives can be married to men who aren't leading. And in every single one of those scenarios, Peter's answer is the same: trust God. Not because the situation isn't hard, but because God is the one who judges justly — and He never, ever fails.

In Part 2 of "Jesus Take the Wheel", we walk through the final verses of 1 Peter 3:1–6, including the one that tends to raise the most eyebrows: Sarah calling Abraham Lord. Sarah was no doormat. She laughed at God. She tried to take control with Hagar. She made real mistakes. And yet Hebrews puts her in the hall of faith. Because Peter isn't holding Sarah up as an example of a perfect wife. He's holding her up as an example of a woman whose honor for her husband was rooted in trust in God's sovereignty, not in Abraham's perfection.

We also talk about fear — the fear underneath so many relationship struggles, the fear of not being heard, not being chosen, of things never changing — and what Peter says to women living in a volatile, pagan Roman world with husbands who held total legal power over them. He doesn't tell them to cower. He calls them to the fierce, unshakeable courage of daughters of Sarah.

We close with the question that ties everything together: where have you placed your hope? In your circumstances changing? In your husband stepping up? In a stronger marriage? All of those things may or may not come. But God — who raised Jesus from the dead, who brought something unexpected out of Teddy and Maya's own hard season — never fails.

Fill your cup. Trust God. Live differently.

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What if the most powerful thing a wife can do for her marriage has nothing to do with words?

When people hear 1 Peter 3:1–6, most of them get stuck on one word: submit. But we say the word that actually unlocks the whole passage comes before it — likewise. Peter isn't starting a new conversation. He's continuing one. He just finished talking about how believers respond to an unjust government, and how servants respond to unfair treatment. And then he points to Jesus, who was falsely accused, mocked, and humiliated — and entrusted himself to the One who judges justly. That's the model. And then Peter says: likewise, wives.

In Part 1 of "Jesus Take the Wheel" on Everyday I Do, we unpack what Peter is actually calling wives to — not inferiority, not silence, not being a doormat — but a voluntary posture of trust in God's sovereignty, even when your husband isn't leading the way he should. We talk about what nagging actually produces in a marriage, why a life of Christlike character speaks louder than a thousand corrective conversations, and what it means to cultivate a gentle and quiet spirit — not as weakness, but as strength under control, the same quality Jesus used to describe himself.

Peter's shift from outward appearance to inward character isn't a call to stop caring how you look. It's a question of emphasis. In a world of highlight reels and performative relationships, God is looking at something entirely different — faithfulness, humility, trust. And those are the qualities, Peter says, that are very precious in His sight.

You might be the only Bible your husband ever reads. What is your life saying?

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What if how you treat your wife is directly connected to whether God hears your prayers?

That's not a motivational phrase. That's Scripture. First Peter 3:7 is one of the most countercultural verses in the entire Bible — written to men in a world where women were considered property — and it contains a warning so serious that Teddy says when he first read it, he had to stop and read it again. A husband can be on his knees in prayer around the clock, leading Bible studies, serving in church, doing everything that looks spiritual on the outside. But if he is not honoring his wife, Peter says his prayers are hindered.

In this episode of Everyday I Do, we walk through every layer of 1 Peter 3:7 and what it actually calls husbands to do — not as a list of rules, but as a vision for what a marriage built on covenant love and mutual dignity looks like in real life.

We unpack what it means to live with your wife in understanding — not passive coexistence, but active, attentive, ongoing study of who she is, what she carries, how she communicates, and what she needs. We talk about what honor looks like in practice: in your tone, your attention, your faithfulness, the way you speak about her when she's not in the room, and the private moments that nobody else sees. We address the phrase "weaker vessel" — one of the most misunderstood phrases in Scripture — and what Peter was actually saying to men who had never been told their wives deserved dignity at all. And they land on the phrase that changes everything: heirs together of the grace of life. Your wife is not behind you. She stands beside you before the throne of God.

We put it simply: you cannot be spiritually mature while being relationally careless. There is no separation between how you treat your wife and how you walk with God.

A husband who gets this listens differently, leads differently, and loves differently. And it's never too late to start.

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