Take a look at Jesus

"Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus" v5     Philippians 2:5-11    CSB 

If you want to be like Jesus, take a look at His attitude and His attributes:

V6  He never puffed Himself up. Let us not forget, He was fully God - the Son, who was there at creation and died on the cross. He never, sang His own praises or had the attitude of, 'Look at Me'.

V7  He emptied Himself of who He was and took on the role of a servant by becoming human. He didn't empty Himself of His deity, he didn't stop being God. Rather, He poured out His deity into His humanity taking on Human flesh. He came to this world as a man - the Word made flesh John 1:14 and walked humbly among us.

V8  He knew His mission yet, His flesh struggled because of His humanity, but He never sinned. He even asked God the Father, to take the burden of the cross from Him, 'If You are willing, take this cup away from Me - Nevertheless, not My will, but Yours be done' Luke 22:42.

Therefore God exalted Him because of His humility - 'Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.' Matthew 23:12. This is something that we all need to take on board. Jesus was exalted and given the name that is above every name V9. There is power in the name of Jesus, this is why we should always use it in prayer. At the sound of His name, every knee will bow in heaven, and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. People who don't know Jesus and have no intention of either, will have a shock when this happens.

As we have seen, Jesus poured out the fullness of His deity into His humanity. In other words, He emptied Himself V7. When this happened, Jesus was fully God and also fully man. This is known in theology as the hypostatic union - two natures in one person.

With all that Jesus did, He was secure in who He was. He knew His Father; He knew His mission and, He knew what the cost would be but, He still went and did it for each one of us.

Are you secure in your relationship with Jesus? Are you fully sure that, if everything went drastically wrong, Jesus would be right by your side? (Psalm 23). We need to be secure in our relationship with Him and also feel secure in ourselves, knowing with Jesus, you are unstoppable!

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