Phil 4:1
Once again we read ‘stand firm in the Lord’ (see reflection on Phil 1).
As you know from yesterday’s reflection, my neighbour is having their kitchen extended. For two weeks now, there has been a small digger and three strong men armed with spades digging the foundations for this extension. 3 days ago, concrete was poured into these ditches and now the concrete has set, the breeze block walls are beginning to appear above the mud.
Have you ever noticed how much of the time builders spend on a building before anything seems to happen? Making foundations seems to take for ever! But if the foundations aren’t secure, the building won’t be.
Paul’s call to us to stand firm refers to 3:20-21 = ‘our citizenship is in heaven….’. Our world is not our home. The foundations of our life are meant to have an eternal perspective and a child of God identity.
Are we building our house on the rock or the sand (Matthew 7:24-27)?
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