Do we have the mind of Christ? Looking at the first 11 verses of Philippians 2 we see that Christ's mind is one of humility, such deep humility that he came to serve rather than to be served. He cared so greatly for everyone who would die without redemption from sin that he took the sin of the world upon himself, giving himself to die in our place. Here we see someone worthy of honor. Christ merits our praise. He is exalted by God the Father to his own right hand because of his humility.
None of us will ever have the mind of Christ. We really won't. But we are called to have it in the measure that our Lord has given it to us. We show we have that mind when we look to other people's interests rather than our own. We show that mind when we give people comfort, affection, and sympathy though they really don't deserve it. We show that mind when we consider others' interests to be more important than our own interests. Now here's the big difference. Christ was truly more concerned with our interests than with his. We may do a decent job of pretending others' interests are more important than our own, but we know that in fact we still think our interests are more important. We're just acting like others' needs are more important. There's the difference.
Nevertheless, let us look to Christ, the one who truly humbled himself on our behalf. May he give us grace to humble ourselves for others and to seek his forgiveness for our failure to do so.
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