Philippians 2:1-11
Humility is basic Christianity. Which is sobering, considering how difficult, counter and foreign it is to us. Even those of us who are not brash, who do not boast aloud ... we silently notice when it is not about us, when we are not noticed or fully appreciated. If I am humble, I am not really thinking about me, or what should be mine, or what I should be getting, or who should be noticing ... those things, even if deserved, are not something to be grasped - just as Christ did not grasp at what was rightfully His, equality with God, but emptied Himself. Likewise, I am to die to myself, make myself nothing, serve, follow, look outward ... and leave the noticing to God - who sees in secret and rewards in secret (Matt. 6).
