I remember it just like it was yesterday. My mother worked really hard to get my sister and me ready for church. We had on our Sunday best. The last thing she said to me, “Don’t get dirty, we’re going to church.” As any little boy would do, I said, “Ok!” But, as fate would have it, it had rained during the night and the mud puddles were so inviting. Within moments I had fallen into the mud. Needless to say, my mother wasn’t happy. Our spiritual lives are much the same. God says, “Don’t get dirty!” And, we say, “No problem!” But, the mud of the world is so inviting. How do we stay clean when everything around us is dirty? Peter addresses that very issue in today’s passage.