For tomorrow..

Phil. 3:15-21

15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 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.

Paul invites the Philippians to follow his example and pay attention to the "pattern" of life that is lived in front of them. Knowing Christ and making him known to others requires our lives to be lived differently than those who live as enemies of Christ.

The road ahead is intended to be one that points toward heaven and not in the opposite direction which maintains and eye only on earthly things. So, as we follow God now we must live in the tension of making Christ known fully without being consumed by what we see in front of us in the present.