Peter 5:8-10 (ESV)
“[8] BE SOBER-MINDED; BE WATCHFUL. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. [9] RESIST him, firm in your FAITH, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. [10] And after you have suffered a little while, the GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO HAS CALLED YOU to HIS eternal GLORY in CHRIST, will HIMSELF restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
One things that I frequently do is go a an app where I see varying results on translations of Scripture to MAKE SURE that I am READING what I am SEEING! The HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Bible) begins this passage of Scripture saying ““BE SERIOUS! BE ALERT!”! Another translation says “Be on your guard and stay awake”!
These WORDS open my Brain Damaged mind to SEE something more clearly than what others have said. “BE SERIOUS! BE ALERT!” instructs me to “get down to business” and “don’t play around” any longer!! When you take the WORD literally, BE SOBER-MINDED causes my mind to recall NOT BEING SWAYED by the carelessness generated by “this world”!
We are in current events where “our adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”! We CAN NOT be swayed by what “our adversary” tries to cloud our view of REALITY with, rather we MUST discern what “the GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO HAS CALLED YOU to HIS eternal GLORY in CHRIST, will HIMSELF restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you” has for us!!!
BE SOBER-MINDED and BE WATCHFUL is the mindset that we need to be instilled with, but I need to “BE SERIOUS! BE ALERT!” needs to be the my temperament as I prepare for OUR ADVERSARY!!!
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