A Disciple of Jesus writes … “Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to STIR YOU UP by putting you in remembrance.” 2nd Peter 1:14, King James Version.

The word “meet” as used here actually means that which is “righteous, just, proper or appropriate” in God’s Eyes.

And by “this tabernacle” Peter means as long as he is alive, inhabiting an earthly “body.”

And behind “remembrance” stands the idea of “repetition, review, a rehearing” of the great Truths of the Bible!

But now, what does the verb “stir up” imply?

Its Greek root, spelled “egeiro,” means “to arose, to wake up, to cause to rise” … plus here an added prefix, “dia,” a preposition meaning “through, by means of, for the sake of” … further empowering the verb!

“Being stirred up,” in an energetic way. Fervently so!

Peter does not want us to go to sleep, spiritually speaking.

And he planned, as long as he breathed, to repel laziness, slumber, carelessness from all our minds and hearts. Our bodies too, it sounds like!

Reader here today, are you “stirred up” to serve the Lord?

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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