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Meditation

Reader,

Throughout the beginning of this letter, Paul has been reminding us of how Christians should live with one another.

He knows that in order for us to have healthy, God-honoring relationships (churches, families, marriages, friends, etc.), we need to imitate Jesus.

In today’s and tomorrow’s passage, we’ll be copying what is often called the “Christ Hymn.”

These verses show us Christ’s “mindset” (verse 5), or his attitude. Jesus was a man, but he was also fully God. Yet he didn’t try to use this to his advantage (some translations say that he didn’t try to “grasp” his equality with God, verse 6).

He humbled himself, or “emptied” himself, in order to be a servant of the Lord (verse 7). He was prepared to be obedient—even to the point of experiencing one of the most humiliating and painful deaths imaginable.

And we, you and I, as Christians, are being asked to have the same mindset.

This section of the Christ Hymn can feel a little daunting, for sure. But tomorrow, we’ll see what God the Father’s response is to this kind of Christlike obedience.
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Today’s text is Philippians 2:5-8

Imitating Christ’s Humility

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
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8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

Encouragement

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 13:14–15

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Rebekah

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