Philippians 1:2-3

Philippians 1:2

I. Think of the beauty of the circumstance that Paul thanked God for the blessing of kind, loving, helpful men. Man serves God by aiding God's servants.

II. The more enlarged and susceptible the heart, the more easily can service be rendered to it.

III. Learn how good a thing it is to serve the great, and inferentially how sublime a thing it is to live and die in the service of the Greatest.

IV. Each of us should leave a memory that shall be cherished and blessed.

V. The Apostle stands forth to us as an illustrious man, while the Philippians are not known to us by more than their general name. The hidden workers are not on that account to deem themselves useless.

Parker, City Temple,vol. ii., p. 176.