revelation

What I'm getting at, friends, is that you should simply keep on doing what you've done from the beginning. When I was living among you, you lived in responsive obedience. Now that I'm separated from you, keep it up. Better yet, redouble your efforts. Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God.

That energy is God's energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.

 Do everything readily and cheerfully--no bickering, no second-guessing allowed!

 Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night

 so I'll have good cause to be proud of you on the day that Christ returns. You'll be living proof that I didn't go to all this work for nothing.

 Even if I am executed here and now, I'll rejoice in being an element in the offering of your faith that you make on Christ's altar, a part of your rejoicing.

Philippians 2:12-18

does my life reflect my salvation?

am I reverent and sensitive before God?

wow, wow, wow

my life isn't just about me

its about these people   

and my family

and my youth

and the students who live in the student house

and well, everyone who comes in to contact with me

and you dear reader...

 But turnabout's fair play--you must join me in my rejoicing. Whatever you do, don't feel sorry for me.