Today is Day 214 of 2020!
214 is a number that stands out to me...
not just because it stands for
Valentine's Day... the "day of LOVE",
but it is the day one of our daughters left this earth
to live with the LORD eternally.
What a wonderful topic for our Day 214 reading -
Be like CHRIST!
Philippians
2:1-18
Be Like Christ
Therefore if there is any encouragement in CHRIST,
if there is any consolation of LOVE,
if there is any fellowship of THE SPIRIT,
if any affection and compassion,
2 make MY JOY complete by being of the same mind,
maintaining the same LOVE, united in SPIRIT, intent on one
purpose.
3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
but with humility of mind regard one another as more
important than yourselves;
4 do not merely look out for your own personal
interests, but also for the interests of others.
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in CHRIST
JESUS,
6 WHO, although HE existed in THE FORM OF GOD, did not
regard equality with GOD a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied HIMSELF, taking the form of
a BOND-SERVANT, and being
made in THE LIKENESS OF MEN.
8 Being found in appearance as A MAN, HE humbled HIMSELF by
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 For this reason also, GOD highly exalted HIM, and bestowed on
HIM THE NAME WHICH
IS ABOVE EVERY NAME,
10 so that at the name of JESUS every knee
will bow, of those
who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and that every tongue will confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE
FATHER.
12 So then, my beloved, just as
you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out YOUR
SALVATION with fear and trembling;
13 for it is GOD WHO IS AT WORK
WITHIN YOU, both to will and to work for HIS good
pleasure.
14 Do all things
without grumbling or disputing;
15 so that you will prove
yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of GOD above
reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom
you appear as lights in the world,
16 holding fast THE WORD OF LIFE, so
that in the day of CHRIST
I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in
vain.
17 But even if I am being poured
out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
rejoice and share MY JOY with you all.
18 You too, I urge you,
rejoice in the same way and share YOUR JOY with me."
