I’m memorizing Philippians 1. Let me give you verses 10-11. They say, “That you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”

Sincere. The bazaar vendors would stand outside their stalls shouting ‘sincere.’ It meant that there was no wax to cover up cracks. According to the Strong’s, sincere literally means tested by sunlight. For us it means: free from falsehood, pure, and without hidden motives.

Without offense means keeping no record of wrongs tacked up on the wall of your heart. There are no unresolved issues that are fed through buried unforgiveness.

Fruits of righteousness. Hebrews 12:11 says that the result of the Lord correcting us in our walk, “…afterwards it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Trained is the operative word.