Our hopeful thought for today is from Phil. 2:5-11.\u00a0 Recall our discussion during week one about the fellowship of the Trinity, and reflect on what it meant for Christ to “empty Himself.”\u00a0 In the midst of your suffering, how does the self-emptying of Christ bring you hope?<\/p>\n
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.\u00a0 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.\u00a0 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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