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“HOLY WOMEN WHO HAVE HOPED IN GOD”

T. Mair

1 Peter 3: 4–6; Luke 2: 36–38; 1 Samuel 1: 10, 11, 15

I was impressed, dear brethren, by what we have here in

Peter’s epistle as to the “holy women who have hoped in God”.

I read as to Sarah, Anna, and Hannah, because they

represent holy women who have hoped in God. I think, dear

brethren, that we can say in all sincerity and truth that our

sister whom the Lord has been pleased to take, and who is

now with the Lord Jesus, which is very much better, was one

of these.

I just want to speak briefly about certain features that mark

“holy women who have hoped in God”, not outward features,

as Peter tells us here —the tressing of hair, or in our day, the

cutting of hair. These are not features that mark holy women,

neither, as you have here, putting on apparel, or in our day

women putting on what is like man’s apparel. What marks

women is “the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible

ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God

is of great price”. Think of these features that mark holy

women, these characteristics. The Lord at this time would

speak to us and have us to take on these features. Think of

the hidden Man of the heart! Our sister knew what that was.

Who is the hidden Man of the heart? It is none other than

Christ—Christ in the heart, Christ in the affections. That is

what will see us through in these last days, the hidden Man of

the heart, and as we hope in God.

There are many more sisters in Scripture who were holy

women; what saw them through was that they all hoped in

God. So that the result of the hidden Man of the heart is the

“incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the

sight of God is of great price”. Our sister had a meek and quiet