About two weeks ago, I was reading from Philippians, when a passage jumped out at me, starting at Philippians 2:14: “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”
The “warped and crooked generation” language isn’t Paul’s, but taken instead from Deuteronomy 32. There, Moses spoke angrily against the often faithless Israelites: “They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?”
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