1 Peter 1.13 declares get your minds ready for action.

Because we know God we serve God. Because we have been restored to God we live to glorify God. Because we call God the Creator and Lord of all, Father, we work as children of God to do His will on earth as it is in heaven.

People seek meaning and purpose to their lives but meaning and purpose come through knowing God and doing His will.

We were created by God for God to serve God.

Peter commands our minds be set for action. This means we use all the intellectual capital at our disposal for understanding the will of God then bring it into reality.

We are not to wait until we feel like serving God we are to serve God from an understanding that obedience to God is our purpose for living.

God has given us His general will through His Scriptures then we seek Him for specific application through His Holy Spirit in prayer.

Knowing God and doing His perfect will in our particular context with our unique abilities occurs as we individually seek Him with all of our heart and mind through the Scriptures and through prayer. Upon meeting with God in this way we are to be active in doing the will of God before all men.

Our religion is not contemplative like the Buddhists but action oriented for God requires we both know Him and carry-out His plans for the earth.

After we gather for instruction on Sunday we are to implement what we have understood on Monday.

There is no knowing without doing in the eyes of God.

We must understand that our minds are to be used in all their capacity to seek God then to glorify God throughout the whole earth doing great things for men to see and experience God that they too might know Him then join in the work for Him.