Oh, how little we are like that true servant, who came not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, content to be nothing, so that in all things His Father might be glorified-as man to be unseen that God might alone be seen. In nothing are we so fan. from Him practically as in " that mind " which was in Christ Jesus, who, though every tiring as God, became nothing, "made Himself of no reputation," in taking upon Himself the form of a servant, and that servantship not in angelic nature, but in " fashion as a man," the lowest creature place,—that in that place he might humble Himself to death, "even the dentin of the cross," a death, the character of which is the expression of human shame and degradation. it was not merely that he submitted to the cross as the necessity of the Father's will for man's redemption and deliverance from the curse of the law, but He deliberately sought it in His own free will; he humbled Himself to it, as that in which the Father could be most glorified, and as a lesson to all created intelligences of the true path of the creature. Angels and man had equally falsified their due character by seeking to elevate themselves above the estate in which the Creator had placed them-they left their first estate in the attempt He as God, could alone by His own personal will leave His first estate and not sin in doing so, but it was to go down, and down so low that lower none could go. In this God was glorified by Christ as previously by angels and men Inc had been dishonored. Following Christ, as the servant, can alone make us true servants. "If a man serve me, let him follow me." "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men," the Lord says to Simon and Andrew. " What is that to thee? follow thou me," ire repeats to that same Simon when giving him his final commission.
Morally we become like Christ while the eye is fixed on Himself, and Himself alone. The feet under the constraining power. of His own persons glide unconsciously and unaffectedly into his footsteps. The Lord inn His grace keep our eye more simply fixed on himself as the light of God, and then will His " mind" be reproduced in us, and the path will tell what the " mind " is.