Flipparoo

Phillipians 2:5-11
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
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,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became 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,
hat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Pondering on these verses Sunday, God brought this to mind:
Jesus made himself nothing---meaning he took on human likeness and had a servants nature. His appearance was of man....and he humbled himself....obedient to the point of death--even a terrible, humiliating naked, public death.

Now if Jesus, who is/was seated at the right hand of God left heaven and all it's glory to take on human form (which we are already born into) and became a servant....I mean think about it...we don't have to choose to be human, don't have to choose to leave heaven to be human....we are born human...no choice there! Right!?!?! So it would seem the hard part has been done for us...we simply are human...born into this world...so we just have to be who we already are. But we must choose the second part....to take the very nature of a servant! Oh wait...choice here! But see we aren't in glorious heaven...so what do we have to loose by serving others?
Could it be that Jesus gave up time in heaven to serve to show us that we need to flip it around and give up some time by serving others so that we will enjoy heaven even more by knowing we did here on earth what we were meant to do?