For most of my life, I have worked with wood - From framing Houses and roof systems, all the way to cabinetry and furniture - if it’s been done with wood, I’ve done it or at least attempted it. Depending on the type of wood I’m dealing with I have learned to predict how basic elements will react under given situation or circumstance. Knowing those proclivities, will determine how I approach the task.

If only life were that easy. But you can never anticipate every circumstance and trial that you will go through. And so your life is a process of learning how to deal with not only circumstance and trial but also how to deal with those who are against you.

That is why Peter wrote this second letter to the church. There are some aspects of life that you don’t expect to have to deal with. We expect attacks from outside the church but not necessarily from within. But the churches in Asia minor were being infiltrated by false teachers and were leading many astray. Peter writes to the churches to stand firm in what they know and to defend the faith.