Jesus Stayed

**Please take one minute to sit, breathe deeply and seek quiet.**

“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human.” Philippians 2:6-7 – The Message

    He stayed a human. Reading this passage I decided to read another translation to catch a different nuance to these verses. He stayed human caught my attention. He could have escaped this life at any moment. He could have decided the moment he was born that it was not worth it. He could have decided at age 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Jesus could have abandoned his humanity but he did not. He stayed a servant and stayed a slave.
    So many times I want to escape when I feel like a servant, doing menial tasks, “unimportant” things. I want to escape difficult things, hard situations and relationships. Jesus did not run back to heaven. Jesus stayed. How can you stay, what is God calling you to remain and serve in?

**Please take as much time as is possible to sit and reflect.**