Do everything without grumbling and arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world, by holding firm to the word of life.

Philippians 2:14-16 CSB

Paul's lockdown lessons!

Does it change the way you read this picturing Paul in jail?

Sometimes we think of freedom as the ability to travel anywhere. The reality is we not only needed to be able to pay for it, have a passport, many places have a visa, and for some places, vaccination. 

Paul is clear that our attitude counts. 

Our attitude tells the world who's children we really are.

And it's circular. 

If we hold on to the word of life, that we are dearly loved children of the living God, then THAT will infect all that we do, our heart attitude, and then those around us will see it.

Being a child of God just needs faith. 

Not circumstances

Not performance 

Not being good enough, doing enough.

It's a status. 

Ours.

Nothing can separate us from God's love.

Being a child of God is a safe place to rest in. 

To grow in

To flourish in

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