Today’s Thought “Newest Determinations” G. Ward 1 Peter 4 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God. Awakening to an independence that dis-involves a practice I once delighted in, even granting me popularity among many acquaintances cannot co-exist with spiritual maturity desired (*cf. Pr.18:24) and retrieving just one more drink at one more party while believing that the wine made by Jesus (in such grandiose proportion) was an intoxicating beverage (as what’s employed by friends of today), may defer to a life once lived in frivolity (Lk.13:3).