Read Philippians 2:5-11
“Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus…” (v5)
Some Thoughts…
The mind of Christ… His motive, His approach to life, His attitudes towards others … we need to think His way! And what was at the core of His way of thinking?
Self-emptying: Jesus willfully released the power and privileges of His God-likeness and took upon Himself the weakness and limitations of humanity. He didn’t cling to what was rightfully His so that I could gain what I have absolutely no right to at all.
Jesus is the example for living: Total dependence, trust, and obedience to God the Father and total self-giving to an imperfect, self-consumed and power hungry world of people.
Let His mind be in you!
That is the declaration of the chained Apostle. Go ahead and give yourself over to the ways of Jesus; to His way of thinking and His way of relating… Because one day everyone will have to submit to His authority … why not just willfully surrender now? It is when we truly giving up on our personal agendas that we begin to discover real peace, clarity, and somehow new purpose for living.
A Prayer…
Father, I plead for the mind of Christ! I desire nothing less than to be made into the image of Your Son. I beg for a divine drain to empty myself, so that the fullness of my Savior can fill me up. Amen.