1 peter 1 13-15

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.”

13 Be prepared to be holy We got to be in Gods word and know what we are to do and be serious about this study, But with this recall we are to think of the grace of God we have and take the commands of this book in the light of all Jesus did for us.

Mac 1:13 gird up the loins of your mind. The ancient practice of gathering up one’s robes when needing to move in a hurry; here, it is metaphorically applied to one’s thought process. The meaning is to pull in all the loose ends of one’s thinking, by rejecting the hindrances of the world and focusing on the future grace of God (cf. Eph. 6:14; Col. 3:2). be sober. Spiritual sober-mindedness includes the ideas of steadfastness, self-control, clarity of mind, and moral decisiveness. The sober Christian is correctly in charge of his priorities and not intoxicated with the various allurements of the world. rest your hope fully. In light of their great salvation, Christians, especially those undergoing suffering, should unreservedly live for the future, anticipating the consummation of their salvation at the second coming of Christ (see v. 7). Cf. Col. 3:2–4. grace that is to be brought to you. Christ’s future ministry of glorifying Christians and giving them eternal life in His presence will be the final culmination of the grace initiated at salvation (cf. Eph. 2:7).¹

14 We r to obey what Jesus said to do. We do not go back to the old things we go to the things Jesus said for us to do and learn to do them. We as the bible said are new creations and there is a new way we ought to live. We are to bre holy because we want to obey Jesus and be just like him. If we Love Jesus we are going to do as he askes us to do,

That is exactly what Peter is teaching. We are to be holy in all that we do. We are to become more and more like our Lord, and we are to live as He lives. His holiness should increasingly replace our natural character of lust and evil appetites. A spiritual transformation needs to take place which displaces our character of sin by His character of holiness. He longs to donate a new heart to us just as certainly as a physical heart may be donated in transplant surgery.

And when our lives communicate the holiness of God, we will not need to declare it to anyone. D. L. Moody spoke well to the point when he said, “It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining—they just shine.”

Blaise Pascal wrote, “The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God.” Holiness is not meant to be merely a matter of our theology nor simply words on the page of our hymnals. The holiness of God is meant to be lived out in our daily lives.

As we are controlled increasingly by the Holy Spirit, the holiness of His presence and power will shine from our lives. If we try to live holy lives, we shall always fail. If we follow Jesus Christ as the Lord of our lives and allow the Holy Spirit to live in and through us, we shall be channels for the holiness of God. “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matt. 5:16).

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1 MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1940). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.

2 Cedar, P. A., & Ogilvie, L. J. (1984). James / 1 & 2 Peter / Jude (Vol. 34, p. 124). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc.