Philippians

When I first saw that we were blogging about Philippians, I got excited because not only was I already familiar in this book, but it was something that I actually enjoyed. Score! Paul is in jail as he writes this letter to the church of Pilipi. He does not know whether or not he is going to make it out of jail alive or be executed. This is one of my favorite books in the bible because there re so many things that Paul says in this little book that we can apply to our lives today. One of the things that Paul says verse 21 of the first chapter is “for to me, to live as Christ and to die is gain.” I feel like we use that quote from the Bible a lot but we don’t really understand the significance let alone actually believe it. If we really believed that why are we not going out and risking our own lives for the sake of Jesus Christ. I couldn’t really find any metaphors in this book. Maybe I didn’t look closely enough. As many times as I have the book of Philippians, I mostly look at as a reminder for life. I when I read a little more closely, I came upon the part where Paul was talking about doing ministry with Timothy. In chapter two he says “like a son with his father, he has served with me preaching the good news.” In chapter four, Paul goes on speaks words of encouragement to the church. He tells us not to worry about every but in everything with prayer and petition to God giving thanks. I haven’t heard of anyone who was in Jail and possibly on death row to speak words like that. He also talks about only think about things that are worthy to be praised as well as being content at where are. I feel like if threes anything we can apply to our lives today, it’s this entire book.