13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” -- 1 Peter 1:13-17
13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action,
Girding
up the loins of your mind
and being sober-minded,
Clear-headed
- Wakefulness
set your hope
Confident
expectation
fully
Completely
on
Upon
the grace that will be brought to you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
The
grace that will be extended to you when Jesus returns.
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind and remain clear
headed, set your confident expectations COMPLETELY upon the grace that will be
extended to you when Jesus returns at the end of time.
14 As obedient children
Relationship,
not age (because we’ll talk about the Father later)
, do not be
conformed
Molded by
to the passions
Lusts
of your former ignorance,
Here, “ignorance”
means the way the gentiles that he is writing to worshiped before
they became Christians.
15 but as he
The Lord
who called you is holy
Holy comes from a word that means “to cut off” - to
cut yourself off from sin to be
separated from sin.
, you also be holy in all
your conduct,
Every bit
of your conduct
16 since it is written, “You
shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Lev 11:44 “I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves
and be holy, because I am holy.”
As obedient children, Do not be
molded by lusts of your old life, But as
Christ was holy, let’s also be set-apart from sin in every bit of our conduct,
since it was written even before Christ was born that we should be holy because
God is holy.
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind and remain clear
headed, set your confident expectations COMPLETELY upon the grace that will be
extended to you when Jesus returns at the end of time.
As obedient children, Do not be
molded by lusts of your old life, But as
Christ was holy, let’s also be set-apart from sin in every bit of our conduct,
since it was written even before Christ was born that we should be holy because
God is holy.
Being a mom is really
hard. Some days we want to just take our kids and give them to someone. Sometimes
we just want to smother our spouse in his sleep.
We say things to our
families and act in ways that don’t show any grace at all. We are uglier to our
family than anyone else. Which is sad because they’re the ones we love the
most. What is even sadder, is that we don’t show them what holy looks like at
all some days.
Peter says to be set-apart
from sin in every bit of our conduct. That means how we walk, how we talk, how
we raise our kids, how we approach our spouse. How am I supposed to be holy if
I can’t even keep the dishes clean?
Today let’s work on girding
up the loins of our mind. Let’s brace ourselves for all the junk that Satan is
going to throw at us today. Let’s remember the grace that was extended to us,
turn around, and extend that same grace to our families.
The number one thing that
the Devil wants to use against us is our own past. He wants to reach way back
in the vault of our mind and drag out something ugly. He wants us to always
remember who we were before we gave our garbage to God.
That garbage in the back
of our mind is “former ignorance.” It’s trash, and it needs to stay in the
trashcan.
When you give your life to
God, he doesn’t remember all the junk you hoarded up before you gave it to him.
He cleaned you right up and organized your heart with little labels that say, “I
love you.”
Don’t let your old self
control your holy self. Just like we want our kids to obey, we need to obey God’s
commands. Let’s set good examples today of how we’re moving forward toward
holiness and moving away from our nasty pasts and our nasty old habits.
Extend grace to your
family today and tell the Devil that your garbage has already been collected, and
he doesn't need to keep bringing it up because it is already GONE.
I love you, and I hope
this encourages you today J
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