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Have This Mind
On Friday we talked about choosing humility before our feet hit the floor. Today, Paul shows us why.
We have a lot of work to do. We need to always be sharing the name of the One who delivered us, Jesus. Now is the time to reach out to a world that needs to feel the love of Christ. Now is the time to help people experience forgiveness and receive unconditional love.
I believe it has been in God's plan all along that we accompany love with action. Each one of us has a place in His master plan to touch the lives of others through good deeds.
Each time we touch the life of another with a kind word, respond to a need, or simply lend a kind ear to a hurting heart, we don't just express our own love. We become a channel for God's love to reach them through us.
Paul gives us the picture of what self-emptying love actually looks like:
"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 emptied himself, by 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."
Philippians 2:5-11
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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 emptied himself, by 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.
Philippians 2:5-11
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