Philippians

I love the book of Philippians. I just find it so encouraging, for some reason. I have read it several times, and every time I see something new or something takes on a new meaning then it did the previous time. It is so refreshing when that happens. Like God is revealing something to you that is just for you. It’s a great thing to think about, in my opinion.

Anyway, there’s a prompt for this post I do believe. So as I was reading through it I was specifically looking for metaphors. There was only one that really stuck out to me. Now, of course, that is not to say that it is the only one. Nor is it to say that what I thought was a metaphor really is a metaphor. I’m not very good at discerning things like that. So the one that stuck out to me was this:

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

Is that a metaphor? Maybe the reason I thought it was is because this isn’t usually how the world views things.. But I’m not sure if it is a metaphor or not. Another one that made me wonder was this:

“But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.”

I thought maybe this was more like symbolism? Just because it is relating it to something else. Or maybe it is something completely different.. Either way, these two quotes of Paul make you really think about what he is trying to get across. In the second quote I wrote, it uses really good imagery and makes me relate it to something else that is easier for me to understand. Whereas before, it was almost on a level that I couldn’t really understand. It didn’t have as much feeling behind it as it does now that I can understand it on my level.