Philippians 3:15 “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”
To “be thus minded” is to follow Paul’s example to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14); that is, those who are spiritually mature are exhorted to endure all hindrances, overcome all obstacles, and suffer all disadvantages in order to learn and obey the Commandments of Jesus Christ. In his example, Paul suffered the loss of all things and considered all his previous accomplishments as “dung” (Philippians 3:8) and he understood that his “righteousness” was not of himself but from his Lord (Philippians 3:9). His Spirit-led objective was to “know” the Lord, “and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means” he “might attain unto the resurrection of the dead” (Philippians 3:10-11); that is, knowingly draw closer and closer to the Lord by learning more and more about Him and obeying His Commandments and enduring whatever disadvantages in life that are necessary to enjoy fellowship with the Lord and live in anticipation of the blessed joy of “the resurrection of the dead”. “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded”!