How many times in a week do we complain when we are asked to do something menial, trivial, beneath us? Clean a toilet, help a co-worker with a mess they’ve made, a job that’s “below” our station…
What if that had been Jesus attitude?
I still can’t get my mind around it fully – that Almighty God came in the form of a baby and subjected himself to a human life. Why?
It was because of His great love. Birthed from that love was His desire to see us returned to our right relationship with God, the Father, that same fellowship that Adam and Eve had in the garden before sin.
“The Word became a man and lived among us. We saw his divine greatness—the greatness that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 ERV
Do we take the same attitude that Jesus took?
What if he had said to Father God, “I’ve thought about it and decided I’m not going to earth. Those people won’t appreciate what I’m doing, they will only expect more. They won’t realize who I really am; some of them will really hate me and spend all their time discrediting me and telling lies about me. No, I don’t need that kind of treatment – I deserve better than that.” But that’s not how He thought.
“In your life together, think the way Christ Jesus thought. He was like God in every way, but he did not think that his being equal with God was something to use for his own benefit. Instead, he gave up everything, even his place with God. He accepted the role of a servant, appearing in human form. During his life as a man, he humbled himself by being fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.” Philippians 2:5-8 CEV
So, when things get hard to handle and you feel under appreciated, remember Jesus, God’s own Son. He left the perfection of heaven to come to earth – “mighty God” and became a servant to all.