This morning I began reading Philippians. Someone once told me the best way to remember the order of these four epistles was to remember Go, Eat Peaches and Cream (Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians). I started with the "cream" and now I'm on the peaches, and a good thing as the season for peaches is ending. I have to confess I love peaches and this has been a good year for them! Okay, focus on the spiritual food now:
It it nice to be remembered in someone else's prayers. It is even nicer for us to remember others in our prayers. It is super nice to lift up prayers of thanksgiving for others. Joy fills our hearts and our prayers as we pray for those in ministry with us. Here is the confidence of our faith as expressed in our prayers: He who began a good work in us will see it through all the way to the end, even to the day of Christ Jesus.
We all share in the grace of God and that blesses us; whether we're free to preach and work, or even if imprisoned in some way. Our heart's longing should be to be in fellowship with sisters and brothers in the faith.
PHIL-ME-UP PRAYER: Loving God, may my love abound more and more in Your knowledge and in our insight towards life and God's work to the point where I may be able to discern what is best, what is pure, and what is blameless until the day of Christ - may those days between now and then be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - all for the honor and glory of God. Amen
