Pouring Ourselves Out

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.                                                                                                                                                                      Philippians 2:5-7

I am struck by this passage from Philippians:  That Christ Jesus, being “in the form of God” came to us not as God, but in the form of a human – and in “the form of a slave.”  

What kind of an entrance is that?  Wouldn’t he have had better luck if he had arrived in a golden chariot?  But he didn’t. He came to us as a defenseless baby, and emptied himself; emptied all the godliness out of himself and took the form of a slave. 

Paul exhorts us to be of the same mind as Christ Jesus; to drop our quests for power and success and “stuff” and, instead, to move about in the world like Jesus did, as servants.  

I wonder what we’d look like if we allowed the same mind be in us as was in Christ Jesus?               

What does emptying ourselves entail?        

                How does it feel to pour oneself out?

And why, do you think, did Jesus do it?

     A chariot might have been easier.