Ephesians 4:1

Ephesians 4:1 "I therefore a prisoner for the Lord urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,"

First off it seems weird that basically he says, since I am a prisoner I suggest you do things that I have done, assuming Paul walked in a manner worthy of His calling. I think this is a fair assumption. Wouldn't it be natural to avoid being a prisoner? But Paul thinks it is great, once again he doesn't say he is a prisoner of Rome, but for the Lord, there is a high calling to be a prisoner for the Lord and even if we aren't in a jail cell we can be a prisoner for the Lord, and we should, we should be completely taken in with Jesus. We should subject our every thought and action to Him. And this is a good thing, he is urging us to do this, Romans 8:28 "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good", it seems contradictory but being a prisoner for the Lord is good for us. Plus it gives glory to God which is never bad. Second when he says "walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called" it makes me wonder what is this manner. Colossians 1:10 "walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God" So from that I would take that to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord we should bear fruit in all that we do, and I think ultimately the only way we can do that is if our heart is in the right spot, we need to be humble (which coincidently is in Ephesians 4:2) and do all things to the glory of God and in a sense of praise and worship. Phil 1:27 "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ", so our lives must be worthy of the gospel, once again we do not deserve the gospel by any means of ourselves, we need to rest on Jesus' grace, but once we are under His protection and we wear the Robe of His salvation, we cannot defile the Robe by doing evil things, we have to walk in a manner worthy of wearing His Salvation. Also once we have received salvation, we are worthy to bear the gospel, and we are held 'responsible' to bring his gospel to all nations Matt 24:28-30.