Section 7
Paul suddenly tells us to do all things without murmurings and reasonings. It seemed to me that murmurings and reasonings were too insig nificant to be mentioned here. However, after more experience, I learned that we definitely need to be saved in a practical way from rea sonings and murmurings.
In the church life and in our married life, there are a lot of murmurings and reasonings. The sisters may behave properly, but within they may murmur against the brothers. What sister can say that she has never murmured about anything in the church life? If the sisters do not complain outwardly, they certainly murmur inwardly. When the brothers hear of the sisters' murmuring, they may react by reasoning. Be cause we have murmurings and reasonings, we need the practical salvation revealed in Philip pians 2. The salvation here is not the salvation we have received once for all. On the contrary, it is the salvation which we need to work out in order to be rescued daily from our weak nesses. We have pointed out that this salvation is Christ as our pattern. Hence, the pattern and the salvation are one. The pattern is the salva tion, and the salvation is the pattern worked out in us.