NO excuse

Tonight I was reading Philippians 2 :5-8 that reads: "Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion."

The first part of this verse got me thinking about how privileged we are as christians and followers of Christ to be able to live a life that is dedicated to and for God. 

It never really understood this idea until i read this verse tonight and it made me just pray a prayer of thanksgiving to our God. Because i realized how amazing and precious the sacrifice he gave for us. 
I grew up knowing and learning that the sacrifice was amazing because Jesus was God's only son and that has got to be extremely hard to give up your one and only son. But the second aspect which i didnt realize was that this sacrifice is amazing because God sacrificed Jesus, his one and only son, so that we as his followers could have a perfect example to live our lives. Because think about it, Jesus was perfect and he lived the perfect life without sin. And he "set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became a human!!" and the even crazier thing is that he wasnt forced to do this! He chose to do this out of the crazy love that he has for us, his children.  

So because of this absolutely AMAZING sacrifice, we really have no excuse to go on living our lives like its our own, in our sin and self fish desires. We are dead to our old life and are living a life that Jesus was supposed to live, so dont continue to live lazy lives for ourselves! Instead,  let us all be reminded and keep in mind what amazing sacrifice we were given and the perfect example that we have laid out before our eyes, as our guidelines to living a life for our Lord that is pleasing and good to the God that has given his everything for those who love him and obey his commands!!


And also! Dont forget that we have our bible with us as a very powerful tool to also help guide us by educating us on everything that Jesus did while he lived as a man on this earth. So if you havent read your bible in a while, take it out and read it!! If those are the words that Jesus spoke, shouldnt we be spending some time,if not ALL our time, reading and meditating on his word ?!

So I encourage everyone to take out their awesome bibles and just to spend time reading his word and soaking up the presence of our Lord tonight!