Get Real October 26 Devotional
October 26, 2024
1 PETER 1:13-14 | 13 Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. 14 Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
Prepare your minds for action is literally “gird up the loins of your mind.” Peter pictures someone getting ready for quick and decisive action, who tucks his long robe up into his belt so as to move freely. Self-discipline and mental focus allows us to move toward the two goals we must seek which are obedience and holiness; doing God’s will and becoming like Him.
As we learn to obey God’s commands and direction, we change in character, desires, and outlook—becoming more loving, faithful, generous, and compassionate. As we change to become more like our heavenly Father, it becomes easier to exercise self-control and Christian virtue. This is consequent upon the new relationship, new life, and gift of the Spirit given by God to those who respond through faith to His grace. The change follows the gift, and the divine power of God’s word at work in us.
How good is your self-discipline and mental focus?
Gracious God,
May my faith issue in deeper levels of obedience today. Let me become more like You in what I say and do.
Amen.
