What Is Your Will In Christ?

As followers of Christ, we have a map - scripture, and a trail of divine footsteps to use to get where we're going. But if any part of scripture is taken fractionally, the context and true understanding of it can become fractured along with it or completely lost. Scholars have sectioned our bibles into chapters and verses, labeling them accordingly. But it's important to remember that in some cases, particularly in regard to some of the letters and writings of the Apostles, what was written was actually one continuous writing effort. What makes this important is the fact that the complete essence of thought that a particular writer was trying to convey can become broken if not followed past some of the scholarly breaks installed by the well meaning and otherwise useful efforts of others before us.  It's certainly true of something Peter was trying to tell us in 1st Peter.   Some of what our brothers in Christ have attempted to teach us in scripture became the essential b

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