Recent reflection
I've been pondering this verse for a while....
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed (NIV).
...in particular the part that says "prepare your minds for action". One recurring theme in 1 Peter seems to be the idea that Christians are "strangers in the world" (1:1; 2:11) who are looking forward to the return of Christ. Peter encourages the Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadoccia, Asia and Bithynia (mostly cities in today's Turkey) to live with a different mindset and lifestyle from those around them, since they are looking forward to eternity with Christ.
Trusting in Christ isn't a passive way of life or a turning-in of the brain in exchange for blind belief. For people to set their hope fully on the grace they will receive when the Lord returns requires prayer, deep reflection on God's word and a head-and-heart desire to be "rooted and built up" in Christ (Colossians 1:6). We have hope - not a kind of wishful thinking - but a certainty that Jesus will come again in glory.
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed (NIV).
...in particular the part that says "prepare your minds for action". One recurring theme in 1 Peter seems to be the idea that Christians are "strangers in the world" (1:1; 2:11) who are looking forward to the return of Christ. Peter encourages the Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadoccia, Asia and Bithynia (mostly cities in today's Turkey) to live with a different mindset and lifestyle from those around them, since they are looking forward to eternity with Christ.
Trusting in Christ isn't a passive way of life or a turning-in of the brain in exchange for blind belief. For people to set their hope fully on the grace they will receive when the Lord returns requires prayer, deep reflection on God's word and a head-and-heart desire to be "rooted and built up" in Christ (Colossians 1:6). We have hope - not a kind of wishful thinking - but a certainty that Jesus will come again in glory.
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