1 Peter 1:17 Meaning If You Call on Him as Father

The Father called upon is your own imagination, the I am within, which shows no favoritism and returns to each exactly the work he has done in his mind. What a person keeps beholding inwardly is what he becomes, and the outcome is measured by that inner labor, not by anyone's standing or claim.

The sojourning is this whole passage through the world, a stay in a place that is not finally home, where the self is buried in flesh and waiting to wake. The fear asked for is not dread but the careful reverence of one who knows every imaginal act bears fruit. All things, pleasant and painful alike, work together to bring your inner acts to birth. In plain words, you are only passing through here, your imagining is quietly building your life, and it pays to watch what you dwell on.

Haybah: Awe Haybah is the hush that comes over a person standing near someone vast. Calling God by a family name brings warmth, and the weight stays right alongside it. Closeness and carefulness sit together here, the way they do with a parent you love and don't want to let down.

Deeds are judged by the intentions behind them: the inside of an act counts The Prophet said deeds are weighed by the intention inside them. Where no name, family, or reputation buys special treatment, all that is left to weigh is why a person did what they did. Attention moves off how an act looks to other people and onto the motive only the doer and God can see.

Muḥāsabah: Taking your own account Muḥāsabah means going back over your own day the way you would go over a bill. Someone who knows the accounting is coming, and that nobody gets a discount, would rather find the errors now than be shown them later. In small daily doses the habit loses its sting, like checking your work before handing it in.

Murāqabah: Living aware you are seen Murāqabah is the steady sense of being watched by God at every moment. Hours spent alone, where nobody else would ever know, are exactly the hours this changes. Under a gaze that is attentive and kind, a person acts the same in an empty room as in a crowded one, and the gap between the public self and the private self slowly closes.

Be in this world as a stranger, or someone passing through: the heart stops settling in The Prophet told a young companion to live here as a stranger or a traveler on the road. Feeling out of place then stops being a problem to fix and starts being the right footing. A traveler still eats, works, and makes friends at the stop; they just don't start renovating a room they'll be leaving.