Paul encourages the Philippians to “rejoice in the Lord” and to develop “the righteousness from God that depends on faith”.
The future holds much to rejoice about, provided we can “count everything as loss” in our lives today. This involves “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead”. Paul also describes what it is that lies ahead, “our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body.”