Gird Up The Loins of Your Mind.

(1 Peter 1:13) Turn the robes of your mind into running shorts. Pull them up between your legs and tuck them into your belt. But what does that mean in real life? Well, we know that girding the mind is a means to hoping fully in grace. "Having girded up the loins of your mind, hope fully . . . " That's what our minds are running for. But what are they running in? What are they active in? What is the mind to be doing so actively that it produces hope?

The answer is TRUTH. Hope happens when our minds are girded up with truth, and active in truth. "Do not be conformed to your former lusts which were yours in ignorance." The reason we were once led along by all kinds of lusts instead of being led by hope in grace is because our minds were "in ignorance." So if we want hope to flourish in our hearts, we must gird up the loins of our minds with truth instead of ignorance. (Iink)