2 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Wouldn't it be great if everyone just thought like I did? Wouldn't it be great if people didn't have arguments and disagreements? The dream of a world where everyone was of one mind and one spirit. The dream is a world without sin. But this only comes in a world in which every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Christ empties himself completely in order to recreate this world. Christ does not look to his own interests, but to the interests of the world. Christ does not show selfishness, but gives himself completely. Christ may be confessed as Lord, but he make himself a slave to his Father's plan.
It would be nice if we were able to have this world. It would be nice if we were able to give completely of ourselves. But we are not Christ. We are not without sin. Sadly we live in a world of selfish people. We live in a world of people that only look to their own interests. God on the other hand looks out for you. He provides you with life.
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