We are going through Philippians for my mid-week ladies Bible study and it has been so eye opening and instructive for me. I know many verses from Philippians, but through this study I have been placing them all together in context and have been learning so much more from them. Philippians 3 is a rich chapter, with many deep verses, but I have realized that I so often overlook one important verse that should be foundational for our lives. In Philippians 3:15 Paul exhorts his listeners “Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.” OK, what mind? Well, let’s go back to the prior verses and see. Philippians 3:12-14, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forwa
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