Invest in your faith by study and prayer time, alone-time with God.

"we have been awakened to a lively hope"

A dose of the pursuit of perfection in the good book:                         

"...that which you see to, see to well...."                                                

if you hope, "be prepared to give a reason for your hope..." 

We are after all, not just the "salesmen of the Gospel", but also clients of the Lord, and thus, we have our own relationship with God to maintain.

Paul explains that our own lack of effort on the backend, in establishing and being able to argue for our faith, is a way of embarrassing the Gospel.

If we get out there and get flustered or stammer, or even in frustration lash out in anger, we have embarrassed the Gospel for our own selfish reasons.

As they say, "we have been awakened to a lively hope", and with "gentleness and respect", we can "give a reason for our hope".

-Invest in your faith by study and prayer time, alone-time with God.  

As they say, "we have been awakened to a lively hope", and with "gentleness and respect", we can "give a reason for our hope".

In the modern translations, 1 Peter 3:15, we are exhorted to share the message, spread the message with others, but to defend the faith and share with "gentleness and respect."

It's a boon to have something greater than this world to hope for, something more intangible and immeasurable--

-this something, salvation, is called riches in the pages of the New Testament---

-God's love, also, is referred to as riches in the NT.

scriptural readings:

1 Corinthians 7

Ephesians 2

Psalm 21