
We could ask for no better devotional reading than Philippians 2:5-11 to guide our prayers and meditation during Holy Week. These few verses capture the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection and reign of Jesus Christ in all its pain and purpose and glory:
Let the same mind be in you that we 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. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
We may wish to ask ourselves in what ways we honor, worship and confess Jesus Christ as our Lord; and is all that we do and say to the glory of God. In light of such sacrifice for our sakes, how could we do less than our best?
Reflection from The Rev. Lucy Turner