Where Christ is presented in His own perfectness all our thoughts are inadequate. The excellency of the Lord surpasses all our thoughts. He is sufficient to be the Father's delight; surely He ought to be ours.
But it is of importance that our hearts should be occupied with Him, and this in His low estate. He is at the right hand of God now. We should look at Him in glory that we may be changed into the same image; but when we look to be the same mind as Christ, we must look at Him down here. Thus in Phil. 2, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus"—when was that? When He, who being in the form of God in all the glory up there thought it not robbery to be equal with God, made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men; then, when He was a man, found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. There are the two steps, as it were, as He is descending: first when being in the form of God He came down to be a man; and then when He who so humbled Himself became obedient unto the death of the cross.