Friday, June 9, 2017

What's in it for me?

Philippians 2:5-11
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
 Who, being in very nature God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!
 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.


When I used to do presentations, we would often be reminded that those in attendance should hear right from the start, what was in it for them.  It seems in today’s sociality, that the phrase “What’s in it for me?” is often the attitude of people. 

We are told in the Bible that we are to have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.  How would the Bible be different if Christ had the attitude like we find in the world today?  Would he have still been obedient to death on the cross? 


Are you in the same mindset as Christ Jesus?  I must admit that I am not always great about this.  So what is in it for us if we take on that mindset of Christ Jesus?  We, my friends, will not have to pay the sacrifice to be welcomed into heaven as Christ Jesus already paid that for us.  We get to spend eternity with the most selfless man to ever walk this earth!

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