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“Our work is not done on earth until the day that God has appointed for us to die. So does this align with your own view? Do you see you continuing life as an opportunity for fruitful labour as necessary for the benefit of others? As soon as Christ bought us our purpose in life has become serving Christ. The effect of that: pleasing Christ should be so exalted above other things in our lives that we count all other things as rubbish or trash…(Phil 3:8)”
“Paul had an unyielding disposition of joy that was rooted in God’s faithfulness to mature His churches…Whenever Paul thought of the Philippian believers, his heart was immediately and consistently moved to an attitude of thanksgiving and praise to God, for what God was doing in the church in Philippi…Paul’s prayer is that we will embody what we learn from the Bible. True knowledge of the Bible is thus not something detached from our love of God and others, but is as a container that God increasingly fills for our love to abound more and more…So be diligent, learn the Scriptures; trust, and seek to have God’s love poured into your knowledge. And use it for what is excellent and praiseworthy, so that God may be glorified in us, and cause us to grow in His ways.”
“…(W)e very much tend to view the things of God as something that we simply need to fit somewhere into our schedules, not realizing that it is the things of God that our whole life is all about. And that these things far from merely needing to fit into our schedules, rather they should determine our schedule. Our priorites are often so inverted towards the common things and concerns of this world - even good things - that we fail to realize that we are actually relegating God to the margins…”
