Today's Passage: Philippians 2

"...but in humility consider others more significant than yourselves."

I repeat this phrase quite frequently when I'm dealing with someone who is hard to love. You know the type: rude, awkward, obnoxious, mean. We all run into someone who just rubs us the wrong way. When I find myself being haughty or prideful in their presence, this is usually the verse God uses to remind me that I am here to LOVE.

It can be difficult and we tend to reason in our heads why I'm better than such-and-such but when I read on to verses 6-11, my heart is humbled. I remember the humility of Christ and how he considered his life nothing in order to give us life. He humbled himself even though He had every right to be be exalted and yet because He did not exalt himself on earth He was exalted in eternity.

So it is with our own walk. When we humble ourselves God promises to lift us up (James 4-10).