Philippians 1:2
2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
“We get upset at children who fail to appreciate small gifts, yet we undervalue God’s immeasurable gifts of grace and peace. Instead, we seek the possessions and shallow experiences the world offers. Compared to the big and bright ‘packages’ of our culture, grace and peace appear insignificant. But when we unwrap them, we discover God’s wonderful personal dealings with us. Inside the tiny package marked ‘grace and peace,’ we find an inexhaustible treasure of God’s daily presence in our lives. Using these two words in his greetings to all the churches to whom he wrote, Paul wasn’t offering something new. He was reminding his readers of what they already possessed in Christ. Thank God for his grace, and live in his peace.” (Life Application Study Bible 1989-1990)
Work Cited
Life Application Study Bible. Zondervan, 2011. pp. 1989-1990.
