The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you.
Philippians 4:9 AMP
Paul is writing as a pastor, perhaps towards the end of his life...the scary thing with this verse is that we all have people who we have some influence over, who look to us for something (esp if you're a parent!) & can we say what Paul said?
Does my life speak life?
Paul was in prison.
He had some kind of disability that affected his everyday life
He'd been shipwrecked, arrested, beaten.
I don't think it's that stuff he wants us to replicate.
For Paul it always comes back to the cross..
To Jesus.
Paul says:
I strive to follow Jesus
I strive to be more like him.
To make him known
In what I say
And how I live
And that how I live is the same as what I say.
In the big things & the everyday
#speaklife
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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