Everyone of us goes through circumstances that do not line up with what we really hoped.  In our text today Paul is going to address how to view and actually use life’s difficult circumstances for good. Paul went to Rome, but not as a Preacher but a Prisoner.  He could have written a long letter about how bad things had been going.  Instead he sums it up in verse 12.  All these things were for the furtherance of the gospel.  Paul did not find his joy in circumstances, but in getting out the gospel of Christ.  Philippians teaches us what Paul learned from his earlier trials and how he viewed his life.