I don’t know about you, but often it helps me to have an example to follow when I am doing something hard or new.

This life of challenges often leaves me longing for an example. God gave us that example!

Philippians 2:5-11

^“5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

We can follow Jesus’ example. He became a man, a servant, and humbled Himself to obedience to God to the point of death. He did this for you and me to have a relationship with God. He paid our penalty. He did this for the glory of God.

Despite the suffering we go through, we can bring glory to God and draw others to Him that they, too, may confess Jesus as Lord.

Thank you, God, for our example!