Empowered Bible Studies: Daily Guarding our Minds: Be all you can be

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Daily Guarding our Minds: Be all you can be

As believers we will go through various kinds of trials, therefore, as we see in 1 Peter, we are to gird up the loins of our mind. 1 Peter 1:13 "Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" NKJV
Girding up the loins – Peter here uses an oriental expression referring to the act of gathering up around the waist, the long, loose eastern robes which would impede the progress in running or other exertion. But notice Peter says to gird up the loins of your mind. It is not physical exertion that Peter has in mind here, but mental.
If the purpose of girding up the clothing was to put out of the way that which would impede the physical progress of an individual, then girding up of the loins of the mind would be the putting out of the mind all that would impede the progress of the Christian life. For instance, things such as worry, fear, jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, and impurity; these things harbored in the mind prevent the Holy Spirit from using the mental faculties of the Christian in the most efficient manner impeding the growth in their Christian walk. Peter commands a mental discipline that does not allow our minds to follow ungodly thoughts that are untrue. Christ’s followers are to keep their minds tightly guarded in the truth. We need to be in the Word of God daily!