There are many attitudes that we can consider ourselves prisoners to...fear, disappointment, regret, and more. We can even be prisoners to our ideas of what we think will be, especially if that idea is not from God, but from ourselves. I invite you to exchange whatever prison that you have for the hope that God implants within us. May you become a prisoner of that hope.
So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy. [1 Peter 1:13-16]