Meditation: Philippians – How can you tell if someone is a citizen of a nation? Is the only difference between citizen and non-citizen the origin of a pile of paperwork kept in the back of a drawer or a card in your wallet? Our citizenship in heaven isn’t verified by a slip of paper that can get lost, it is verified by our belief in Christ and the way in which we “eagerly await a savior.”
Gospel: John 17:1-8
New Testament: Philippians 3:12-21
Old Testament: Habakkuk 3:1-10, 16-18