Discover and Serve pt 5. Humility and Obedience
Continuing our study in Philippians 2 what else is attributed to Jesus' attitude? First, total humility. Humility When Paul teaches us that we should have an attitude like Jesus' (Phil 2:5) he quickly shows us that in taking on the form of a bond-servant the path he had to walk was one of total humility ‘counting not equality with God a thing to be grasped'. I wonder if you have ever been in the position where you have been tempted (or even yielded to the temptation) to ‘drop names', thus implying to your hearer that you are someone special since you know such and such a celebrity? In this way we can try to build a reputation on the back of someone else's character and achievements without having to demonstrate…