<p>4:1 <i>I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called</i>- Paul repeatedly expresses his resentment and frustration with his &quot;bonds&quot;; but he saw those limitations as &quot;in the Lord&quot;. We are all frustrated by limitation of situation or health; but they are to be experienced as &quot;unto the Lord&quot;. Living &quot;worthily&quot; or appropriately to our calling, of the Lord, of God, of our status as believers, is a major theme with Paul (Rom. 16:2; Phil. 1:27; Col. 1:10; 1 Thess. 2:12). Our lives are to be full of fruits worthy or appropriate to repentance (Mt. 3:8; and Paul repeats this teaching of John in Acts 26:20). The tendency then as now is to accept the Gospel but not to live and feel in response to that calling. Yet the way of the Spirit is to make us in practice what we are in status. Our calling was by grace- the fact we were called and others were not is a parade example of grace toward us, according to Romans 8 and 2 Tim. 1:9 (Who has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace&quot;). Paul has already prayed that the Spirit would open their eyes to the huge implications of being a called person (1:18). We have heard the Gospel- we are called. Of that there is no question, for the call is in the Gospel of the Kingdom. This should have a huge effect upon us; we are to walk appropriate to such a calling, making our calling sure (2 Pet. 1:10). </p>