Our culture venerates choice. Options of all kinds abound. Just walk down the cereal isle and try to pick your favorite sugary breakfast treat. Multiple this throughout the day and notice all the choices we make for ourselves.

We follow gods of our choosing as well. Even the non-religious follow gods, whether they call it career, or wellness, or finding themselves. Such labels simply cover the adoration of themselves.

Paul spoke of those who worshipped self. Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach…their mind is set on earthly things.

Contrast this reality check with Paul’s reminder to the church in Philippi. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

I’m way beyond the cereal isle, and I still hold a choice. Will I live for my stomach, my cravings—my self? Or continually turn toward the Savior, who eventually will transform me into a glorious new creature?

I know my choice (as much as I stumble along the way). What about yours?

Philippians 3 in reading the Bible in 2023

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