Peter Speaks Against The Way Things Were

¹⁴Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

            Peter issued his challenge, to carry forward with the work that is inspired by what God has done for us in Jesus.  But this is a group that must be changed.  There was a way of doing things that still holds on to them.  It is this means of being that Peter addresses:

Like obedient children, it may not sound immediately flattering to us, but herein is the basic relationship we have to our God.

 do not be conformed-this is the metaphor by which Peter, and the New Testament, speaks when we are picking lives for or against our Lord Jesus.

 to the desires that you formerly had-what does the old life look like in comparison to the new?

 in ignorance. Hmmm, not a bad life chosen intentionally, but…