Continuing to break down this powerful section of 1 Peter 1 and focusing on THE MIND. Such a spiritually logistically important area. The Message version tells us to PUT OUR MIND IN GEAR. How? By controlling what we dwell on.  If it's not TRUE or HONORABLE or EXCELLENT or COMMENDABLE or PRAISE WORTHY... then WE DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.

Read an exert from a great devotion found at https://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/get-your-mind-in-gear/ by Ray Pritchard.

Awesome anthem titled "Surrounded" in which the infectious bridge rings out: "It may look like I'm surrounded, but I'm surrounded by YOU!"

1 Peter 1.13:16 MSG

So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.”