for followers of Jesus: A Meditation to Read/ Pray/ Sing/ Let in/ Live out/ express creatively - in varied ways:

Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another. I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves. And look out for one another's interests, not just for your own.

The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had:

He always had the nature of God,

  but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God.

Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had,

  and took the nature of a servant.

He became like a human being

  and appeared in human likeness.  

He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death—

  his death on the cross.

For this reason God raised him to the highest place above

  and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.   

And so, in honor of the name of Jesus

  all beings in heaven, on earth, and in the world below

  will fall on their knees,

and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord,

-  to the glory of God the Father.  

So then, dear friends, as you always obeyed me when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey me now while I am away from you. Keep on working with fear and trembling to complete your salvation, because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.  

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky, as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.

Jesus’ Apostle, Paul, to a bunch of first Century Jesus Followers in the area around Philippi, possibly formed into a network of Missional Communities: “The Philippians” 2:1‭-‬16 GNTD

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