"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. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” "
Because we have a salvation that prophets have worked hard to comprehend and which angels long to look at, we need to prepare our minds for action. The gospel is amazingly simple and dauntingly complex. If we are going to give ourselves to fully understanding all that we can about it, we must not put our minds in neutral. We are going to have to work diligently at understanding what has been done for us.
But the preparation unto action isn't merely a mental action. Our reaction to salvation must result in holy living. We must prepare our minds to act the right way. We have been called by the Holy One, and we need to live a life of holiness. We are conform our mind and life to what we know to be right, not what has felt right in the past.
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