Obedient Children of God

1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance


Our thoughts can run wild can't they? I know mine have run wild on me but you know what we control our thoughts don't we? We might think something but we control whether we keep thinking on it for the most part.


Things might be hard to get out of our thoughts too. If you've a sick loved one it's hard not to think about them isn't it?


We have thoughts and those thoughts control our feelings don't they? If we have good thoughts we are generally in a good mood. If we have bad thoughts we can easily be in a foul mood.


Thoughts can spiral out of control at times.


Could it be as well that sometimes how we feel influences are thoughts?


It's easy to meet yourself coming and going when thinking about all this but we do have to think about all this because we are told to 'gird up the loins of our mind' our thoughts produce things- actions. We do very few things without first thinking about them. We think about the sin we commit even if it's just a split second or two before we commit it, it goes through our mind before it becomes an action. If we gird up the loins of our minds we are watching over the things we allow ourselves to think- if a bad thought enters our mind we choose whether or not to dwell on that thought. If we're girding up the loins of our minds we're choosing not to entertain those thoughts that lead us to sin. We are called to be sober in our minds, in our thoughts to realize that it is the ungirded loins of our minds that lead us into sin. We need to hope for grace, and hope for it right to the end. Grace will be given to us when Jesus Christ is revealed fully to us at His return. Let us be obedient children of God, not continuing to live as we once lived when we didn't realize the grace of Jesus Christ in our lives.


By His mercy and through His love, in the grace of Jesus Christ we can't fashion ourselves according to former lusts when we didn't know the love, the grace of Jesus.


Obedient children of God will gird up the loins of their mind and be sober and hope to the end for grace through Jesus Christ.


1Pe 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.


Lev 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Lev 20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.


Girding up the loins of our mind, it sounds like it should be easy but it really isn't. Our thoughts are constantly influenced by so many things around us. May God help us and through His grace and mercy may we be saved in Him, in His love, now and forever.


Amen.