1 Peter 1:13 (New Living Translation)
Share Audio
So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
Live in honor of God’s word
Have confidence in yourself and faith open to all hope and grace act accordingly to The fact of life that Jesus is to be seen as if you’re already with him. Don’t get down and discouraged in disappointed and distress.Use this opportunity to build yourself up in positive powers that things won’t always fail and that we can better our journeys. For we are vessels of God and we should live for him in actions of faithfulness towards him in honor of him. Pleasing in his name maturing to his words with our eyes focused on Jesus 100% and nothing else
Verse Thoughts
The epistles of Peter are filled with confidence building facts, placing an emphasis on our security in God’s power; detailing the many precious promises we have in Christ and outlining our permanent possessions in Him. He encourages us to rejoice in our trials because we have believed the glorious gospel of grace and have a heavenly hope, founded on Christ. Peter builds up these foundational facts in order to prepare us to live a victorious Christian life that is honouring to God during the time that we are sojourning on this earth.
Because we are the objects of God’s grace and have entered into a good knowledge and sound doctrine of our great salvation, which is by grace through faith and are gaining maturity in our spiritual lives Peter wants to ensure that we remain stable within our Christian walk, knowing that times will become increasingly difficult, and so He makes use of a number of metaphors and similes to explain how to secure our confident hope to the truth that is founded on Christ.
The soldier in past times would secure their flowing robes into their belt to allow for freedom of movement and avoid any hazardous falls. And in like manner we too are to gird up the loins of our mind and to be sober in our thinking for in so doing we secure an ultimate confidence on the truth of God’s word and in directing our minds continuously towards the grace that has been revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord, our confidence base in Him will stand firm.
We need to fix our eyes on Jesus and the truth of God’s word and nothing else – in order to be able to avoid our hearts being turned toward the difficulties and trials of everyday life. When we have reached the point where we have girded up the loins of our mind; fixed our minds on the truth of Scripture; secured secure our hope of our mental faculties on Christ’s finished work our confidence In His word will remain secure.
Let us secure the cognitive facilities of our understanding to the truth of Scripture and not to be diverted by the strange and difficult circumstances that encompass our lives so that having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, we may hope perfectly upon the grace that is being ours in the revelation of Jesus Christ
Source: https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/1-peter-1-13-b
Living Water Ministries 