I read this chapter yesterday, but didn’t get a chance to post until this morning.
I’m ripping this quote right out of the middle of its context.
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society …
Philippians 2:14,15a
And I’m doing so because of the juxtaposition of these two thoughts from Paul: blameless and pure (called children of God without blemish), and a crooked and perverse society. I think we easily recognize the “crooked and perverse society”. But do we recognize and act in a blameless and pure way? The difficulty, as I see it, and I think Paul does too, is that it’s difficult to separate out how we ought to act, from the surroundings we live in, which so easily corrupt. I especially appreciate that one of the keys to this is to do everything without grumbling or arguing. Hmmm.
