Week 8: Servanthood

Mar 15, 2008 07:48 AM
Philippians 2 1-11

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Mar 15, 2008 10:32 PM
This passage renews my awe for Christ and his outright, unabashed obedience to God. That he took on the roll of the most humble of servants. Though in all of his humanity he knew he was destined to be the Lord of Lords, he allowed himself to be humiliated, beaten and hung on Calvary because he loved ME so much that he didn't care about himself. It was all or nothing... Humble even to his death... Though he had hoped it could be different (I feel that way about the world today), he remained true to God's will... He did it because it would bring glory to the Father.

I pray that I can be even just a fraction as humble as Jesus and keep God's glory in mind with my daily walk.