As you prepare your heart for celebrating Christmas tonight and tomorrow, consider the humility of Jesus. Jesus could have resisted leaving the glory of heaven for this dirty, sin-scarred earth, but He didn’t. He willingly came and out of love and humility offered himself in service.
"In your relationships with one another . . .” This is the context in which God wants us to live out of humility and genuine love.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)
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