caption: ``Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of <PERSON>, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel'' - <PERSON> 1:27 Today's devotional focuses on <PERSON>'s response to being isolated and physically separated from the church, while under house arrest. There is much we can learn from his example.