Grace Presbyterian Church Christchurch
Oct 26, 2026 · 43 min · 7 segments
Do you know what it means to live like a child of God? This week in 1 Peter 1:13-25, we breakdown the four fundamental fruits of living as a child of God.
So what does it look like to live as children even if we're in a context we're experiencing difficulty for our faith? That's really what Peter is going to unpack for us today.
What does it look like to live as Christians or children even in a context we're experiencing difficulty for our faith? And the first thing that he says to do, the first thing that he encourages us to do in this letter is live as people with hope or to hope.
Verse 13 says, Therefore, so pivoting from what is true to what we ought to do.
He says, therefore, preparing your minds for action.
When he uses that idea of action there, he's talking about girding up the loins of your mind.
Be prepared for anything.
He's saying, prepare your minds for action.
what is needed or for action.
He then says, and being sober-minded, that's a sobriety, drunkenness image.
He's saying, don't let your mind be clouded with other things.
Be sober-minded.
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.
I love that image.
When Christ, who is now glorified, is again revealed to us when he returns, when we see that, what we will see is Jesus Christ glorified bringing what? Grace.
Grace.
He brings one thing with him, according to Peter in these verses, and that one thing is grace to his children who have walked a hard road through difficulty and suffering as they wait for his return.
As he comes, he brings grace.
What Peter's asking us to do here is reasonably clear.
He's asking us to be thoughtful against the common perception that is often spoken about Christians, we are actually encouraged to be thoughtful all the time, to use all of our mental capacity, to gird up our loins and be sober-minded and to use all of that mental capacity to focus on one thing, hope.
Why does Peter encourage us to be mindful, especially in a context where we're experiencing difficulties? because it's easy for our minds to become distracted.
And distraction affects disposition.
So if you're living your life and things are relatively difficult for you, And even as things are relatively difficult, you let your minds be distracted by all sorts of different things that aren't the hope and the grace that Jesus will bring when he returns.
It's going to affect your disposition.
If you're not disciplined in your mind thinking about hope, then your disposition is going to drop.
So what does it look like to live as children even if we're in a context we're experiencing difficulty for our faith? That's really what Peter is going to unpack for us today.
What does it look like to live as Christians or children even in a context we're experiencing difficulty for our faith? And the first thing that he says to do, the first thing that he encourages us to do in this letter is live as people with hope or to hope.
Verse 13 says, Therefore, so pivoting from what is true to what we ought to do.
He says, therefore, preparing your minds for action.
When he uses that idea of action there, he's talking about girding up the loins of your mind.
Be prepared for anything.
He's saying, prepare your minds for action.
what is needed or for action.
He then says, and being sober-minded, that's a sobriety, drunkenness image.
He's saying, don't let your mind be clouded with other things.
Be sober-minded.
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.
I love that image.
When Christ, who is now glorified, is again revealed to us when he returns, when we see that, what we will see is Jesus Christ glorified bringing what? Grace.
Grace.
He brings one thing with him, according to Peter in these verses, and that one thing is grace to his children who have walked a hard road through difficulty and suffering as they wait for his return.
As he comes, he brings grace.
What Peter's asking us to do here is reasonably clear.
He's asking us to be thoughtful against the common perception that is often spoken about Christians, we are actually encouraged to be thoughtful all the time, to use all of our mental capacity, to gird up our loins and be sober-minded and to use all of that mental capacity to focus on one thing, hope.
Why does Peter encourage us to be mindful, especially in a context where we're experiencing difficulties? because it's easy for our minds to become distracted.
And distraction affects disposition.
So if you're living your life and things are relatively difficult for you, And even as things are relatively difficult, you let your minds be distracted by all sorts of different things that aren't the hope and the grace that Jesus will bring when he returns.
It's going to affect your disposition.
If you're not disciplined in your mind thinking about hope, then your disposition is going to drop.
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