“preparing your minds for action” (ESV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEffective, perhaps, but, it seems to lose something of the vividness of the literal rendering!<\/p>\n
The call to \u201cgird up the loins\u201d is a call to dress oneself for action\u2014be it heavy labor or the life-and-death struggle of battle. To do so with one\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d is the reminder that as followers of Jesus Christ we are in a battle and that this battle finds its greatest struggles first and foremost in our thinking. God\u2019s call to all His own is to \u201cbe renewed in the spirit of your minds\u201d<\/span> (Eph. 4:23). This is vital because \u201cto set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace\u201d<\/span> (Rom. 8:6). We must \u201cnot be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect\u201d<\/span> (Rom. 12:2).<\/p>\nSo let\u2019s get busy with the heavy labor of daily, continually submitting our thoughts to the renewing of our minds by the written Word of God in reliance upon the Holy Spirit. And thus in the moment of battle\u2014which arrives repeatedly every day, many times over\u2014may we be ready for whatever the will of God requires of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maybe you\u2019ve heard the expression and wondered about it. The Bible repeatedly refers to girding up one\u2019s loins. After the mental snickering is over, what are we to make of this? Peter used the expression: \u201cWherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,89,79,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-peter","category-knowledge","category-mind","category-sanctification","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-LE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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