Obedient Unto Death

Do you think the President vacuums his own floors?  Do you think the Queen of England cleans her bathroom?  There are some things that we deem as beneath certain people.  Because of their importance, their job, their status in life, there are things that they just don't have time to do.  

In one of the most beautiful and descriptive passages of Jesus in all of the Bible, Paul reminds us of all that Christ did for us, and how he sets an example for us to follow.  Paul instructs us to have the same attitude that Jesus had.  When Christ came to earth, he certainly did things that are below the King of Kings!

Although equal with God, Jesus did not consider it his right to hold onto his divine prerogative, but instead put that aside to become a man on earth.  But as if that were not far enough for Jesus to stoop, he became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.

Through his selflessness, Christ not only purchased our salvation, but set for us the ultimate example to follow in thinking of others as higher than ourselves.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. - Phl 2:5-11 NASB