Suffering for Doing Right

Suffering for Doing Right
1 Peter 3.17-22

The older I get, the more I dislike things which need to be put together, after you buy them, by following complicated instructions and diagrams. Part of my dislike is my sense that I will probably get it wrong, force something where it wasn’t meant to go, and ruin the whole thing. Behind that is a lack of trust: sometimes the instructions and diagrams are not only unclear but actually inaccurate. Sometimes they describe another item, similar but not identical to the one we are trying to assemble...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright