Direction: That I May Know Him: A Meditation on Philippians 3
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Yes, hold to what we have. God has given it. But remember that we must continue to be crucified. Even what God has given must be taken away from us so that He can give us something better. And so God patiently destroys all our contents and our shapes until in despair, suffering—and hope—our lives more and more take on the pattern of {116} the life of Christ, until, after a final death, we are prepared for that final resurrection when Christ “will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself” (v. 21).