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What's Your Attitude? In his letter to the Philippians, the Apostle Paul writes, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves" (Philippians 2:3). Now, as well as then, this is a directive that runs counter to human will. There is no area of life that is exempt from our tendency to consider our own interests first and those of others a distance second. Who would sacrifice his career, his comfort, his family for another - particularly if that "other" were ungrateful? Jesus, our Savior, had much more to give up than we. He left the glories of Heaven for the squalor of a stable. He left the side of His Father Who called Him His beloved Son to live with argumentative, self-centered, slow-to-understand humans. Yet willingly, joyfully He came to earth in human form, born of a woman, and subject to all the frailties of humanity. Paul put it this way: "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant" (Philippians 2:6-7a). And, Paul says, we should have that attitude. At Christmas we celebrate the birth of a Baby. That whole account still leaves us breathless even after hearing it often, just as our Lord and Savior does. By grace, let us adopt the attitude of Christ Jesus.
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