What Does It Mean to be Sober-Minded? (TMF:1104)

Thursday, April 11, 2019
Peace to Live By: What Does It Mean to be Sober-Minded? (TMF:1104) - Daniel Litton
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       The Apostle Peter has taught us, “"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" (1 Peter 1:13, ESV). We have learned how to prepare our minds, we’ve just been discussing that. Now, what does it mean to be sober-minded? That means we haven’t given our minds over to anything that becomes the central theme or focus of our minds. If we let a thought get out of control, it can dominate our thinking and create a channel in our minds into which all other thoughts will flow. We can create inappropriate obsessions in our minds, constantly considering a problem we have, hoping to somehow arrive at a reasonable explanation. We can think about things we shouldn’t be thinking about, and become ‘drunk,’ so to speak, with a problem we have. That’s why it’s important to eliminate thinking about something too much, to cast an unsettled problem to God, and let him deal with it. We exercise faith that he will deal with it for us.