of God.” Most believers do not question the truth of the “will of God,” but many regard it as such an obscure mystical reality that they despair of knowing it with any certainty or of doing it with any deep sense of assurance. For many the will of God is as confusing as an Agatha Christie mystery story—an idea that finds unfortunate confirmation in the use of the word “mystery” in many versions of the New Testament. Paul would strongly resist this concept. He rightly insists that the will of God