Undeserving

“rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of servant, being made in human likeness.” – Philippians 2:7

                When a child purposefully disobeys their parents, in many ways they are saying I know better than you.  Parents lay out rules for their child’s benefit, but children love to disobey them.  I remember seeing a sign in an ice-cream shop that said “Quick! Move out, Get a Job, and Pay your way, while you still know it all.”  The sign was talking about teenagers and how, more often than not, this is their mind set towards life.  How often is this our attitude toward our heavenly Father? So many times when God tells us no, we say maybe.  He gives us countless examples and we still think that we are different and that we know better. Jesus Christ is our example of how to live our lives as children of God and yet we so often put ourselves above Jesus and say “I don’t (or can’t) do it that way.”  Jesus laid aside Himself and had His eyes set on others, He was God, yet He took on the nature of a servant.  The Son of Man came down to this earth born in a smelly manger, to wash some dirty feet, be betrayed by His friends, to suffer a death that we all deserved, and we complain when we are stuck on sweeping duty.

Many times our pride gets in the way and makes us think that we deserve better.  We think that we need to help God out and show Him what we are capable of, because sweeping doesn’t even start to hit all of our strengths.  It can be so hard for us to put ourselves in the position of nothing.  We all want to have meaning, and the pride in us loves to get noticed.  Yet, our Savior placed Himself in the position of a servant and He still does.  Jesus Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, interceding on our behalf.  This is so mind blowing and humbling.  Jesus is praying for me; the one that continually messes things up, the sinner.  Why?  Because He loves me so much, He doesn’t care about Himself and He is not controlled by pride.  My God serves me, so how much more should I commit my life to be His servant.  In all truthfulness, I don’t even deserve that honor.