Equality With All

This morning I am studying in Philippians of Christ’s example of humility as I continue looking at equality.

“⁵Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.” – Philippians 2:5-7 (ESV)

Here we have Paul explaining the ultimate humility of Christ. How great is Jesus that He gave up His seat in heaven to become human and experience what it is that we experience.

I find it interesting in the world when we have events that go on in the world and those that do not find themselves as a part of something, implant themselves in that something so that they are somehow looked at as being a part of that. One day does not provide the understanding of a lifetime. Jesus humbled Himself to the point that He spent a human lifetime experiencing all that was human. And He did so to demonstrate His equality to me.

Jesus was both Son of God and “Son of Man”. Equal in both roles. I have to remember that I can be equal with all, and should act as such each and every day, as opposed to looking for the divisiveness that is the differences in the world. Those differences are just what it is that makes us equal to each other in the first place. My differences are synonymous with your differences and yours with your neighbor. We are different so that we are alike. I am sure that most of us have heard this before: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”.

How do you look at those around you? Do you consider yourself different and somehow above or below others? Are you able to understand those differences as making you equal to them?