Let's look at Peter's instructions to husbands one more time. "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
Consider the warning Peter is giving husbands, "that your prayers may not be hindered." God takes seriously any mistreatment of another person. The Psalmist wrote "If I regard wickedness in my meart, the Lord will not hear me." Scripture says, "He who covers his sin will not propser but whosoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy" (Pr 28;13).
When husbands mistreat their wives, or women mistreat their husbands, God notices. It in some ways reflects back to what we talked about last time. God may be providing the answer to a spouse's prayer through their mate. Our behavior is hindering the very answer we seek from God.
