God begun a good work in us the day we received Jesus Christ as our savior. He has every intention on finishing that work. The finish line is the Day of Jesus Christ. We will all come to that day through our natural deaths or his personal coming and in that day we will be like him because we will see him as he is (I John 3:2). This will be the time that we will be completely brought into the image of Jesus, which God has predestined for all the saved (Romans 8:29).
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Anytime the Gospel is being preached it is a good thing (Philippians 1:12-18)
At times we may look at what others believe and practice, or even look at their motives for what they are doing and we simply can't agree with them. Paul did not agree with those that were preaching the gospel for the express purpose of making things harder on him and not a pure heart of wanting others to be saved and yet he was rejoicing that the gospel was being preached even under those circumstances. The gospel is powerful even when men's motives are perverted (Romans 1:16).
Misquote or partial quote (Philippians 1:21)
Many times people just say "to live is Christ and to die is gain", but that really leaves out an important part of the verse. The first three words of the verse, "for to me", indicates that it is our attitude about life and death that make the difference. Do we have the attitude that life is about Jesus and if we are alive it is going to be for him or do we make it about other things? So just because your alive doesn't mean it is about Jesus unless you have the proper attitude. When we take the attitude our life is for Jesus then there is labor and labor bears fruit (1:22).
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