If there is anything like Christian encouragement, if we share the same Spirit, if there is any sympathy flowing through your being, make me happy by cooperating with each other out of a heart of love, united in heart, mind and purpose.
Don’t live to impress others, but consider others better than yourselves. Consider your own affairs secondary to what seems important to others. Your attitude should reflect that of your Master, Jesus Christ, who though being truly God, did not cling to His prerogatives as God, but cast aside His omnipotent power and glory, and assumed the guise of a servant, becoming like men.
And He chose a pathway that ended at the cross, to die a death fit only for a criminal. And because of His obedience, God raised Him to a place of honor and bestowed on Him a Name above all others.
That at the mere expression of His lovely Name every knee shall bow down, both in heaven and on the earth, and every single tongue shall confess the Lordship of Christ, to God be all the glory.
Excerpt from McDonald Paraphrase of the New Testament, Philippians Chapter 2. Copyright 2018
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