As we focus our attention this morning on the last five verses of (Philippians 1:12–26), I’m reminded of a great expositor and exemplary man of God[1] who called this text Paul’s sanctified dilemma. Now we understand what a dilemma is: it’s a situation that presents with itself a perplexing choice between two alternatives. Many times we conceive of the most difficult decisions we have to make in life as “dilemmas.”
And the word is often understood as having a negative connotation. The popularity of the phrase, “I’m between a rock and a hard place,” illustrates that. I’m in a dilemma: if I go one way I run into the rock, but if I turn to the other I hit the hard place...
