Philippians 2: 5-7a
Note: For the Summer we are reprinting some devotions that ran back when we were getting this site up and running. Hopefully this is new content to you, and we will get back into writing fresh devotions as our schedule allows.
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
This verse is amazing to me. It's mind blowing to think that Jesus didn't see the point of hanging onto His Godhood. Hello? He made Himself nothing! Talk about being focused on the mission at hand!?! He laid down everything for us, totally stripped away everything that made Him God and became nothing for us. That's an incredible statement. Wow. If Jesus gave up so much for us, what are we willing to give up for Him. Verse 5 says that we should have the same attitude Jesus had. Let's forget about being popular, athletic, smart and all of the other labels we cling to, and make ourselves nothing for Christ.
Now that doesn't mean that we should never do anything for ourselves, but our priority needs to be Jesus. We were His priority. Let me write that again: WE WERE HIS PRIORITY!
Amazing.
-Jeff-
