Christ in Me Christ out of Me

As you prepare for Christmas gatherings today make sure you are "clothed in humility" for "God resist the proud but gives grace to the humble" (I Peter 5:5).

This morning at Living Hope we are studying Philippians 2:1-11 in the hope that God will stir our hearts to deeper unity and humility as we gather today with family.

Read Philippians 2:1-11 and as you engage today, use this phrase in your mind in constant prayer for God's power and grace:

CHRIST IN MY CHRIST OUT OF ME

1. So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Php 2:1–11). (2016). Crossway Bibles.