16. What is God's will for our lives?
God wants us to trust Him above all else, to love Him, and to love our neighbor.
1 Timothy 2:4 [God] desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification.
Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
Note: Christians often distinguish the Commandments in two parts--those that pertain to love for God (the first three) and those that pertain to love for the neighbor (the last seven)--and call them the two tablets (or tables) of the Law, since God wrote the Commandments on two stone tablets.
Eventual commentary - focus on 1 Timothy 2:4
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