There are three basic things Peter emphasized in this passage for you and I to do as we interact with each other: pray, love fervently, and make our hospitality cheerful. And there is one thing God calls you and me to stop doing: living in the identity we used to have before we came to Christ.
1 Peter 4: Have Done With Carousing
God asks no more of believers than was asked of God’s own Son, and our suffering also has purpose, glory, and blessing in it.