God Humbled Himself

Philippians 2:6-8  Niv84

"Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross!"


I just can't get my mind wrapped around God-through His Son Jesus HUMBLED Himself.  He bent low.

As I was thinking on this and trying my best to get a grip on it...and understand what it means for God to humble Himself and this is what came to mind.  It's like when we want to talk to a child and we want them to trust us and know that we relate to them on their level-we bend down on our knee's, look them in the eye and speak to them in words they will understand because we want them to know we hear them, we see them, what they say and do are important to us and we love them enough to be where they are at to understand them and relate our love and our desires for them.

God bent His knee, looked us in the face and spoke to us in a way that we could understand His love for us and we would know He see's us, He hears us and we are important to Him.

That just amazes me.  God in all His glory would take on the appearance of a man so that we could relate to Him and understand His love and forgiveness of our sins through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son.  Isn't that amazing.

still amazed,
phebee