A Case in Point
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Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant . . . (Phil. 2:4–7)
In the King James version, the above-bolded sentence reads: "Let the mind of Christ be in you." That has been my prayer many times, but I frankly doubt how often it bears out. Yet increasingly I see the mind of Christ, the Divine Mercy, in others—last week in an old friend. I had driven to his San Antonio home in a car showing advanced neglect. But Sunday afternoon, while his wife and I walked, Mark took the nature of a servant. For three hours, with the enlisted help of his two young sons, he checked my car's engine, changed fluids and filters, cleaned, waxed, and detailed. God love him, he even sprayed in the new-car smell. The transformation overwhelmed me. I asked if I could at least pay the boys. He said, "No, they need to learn that we do for others."
Author Tom Howard says selfless acts are not "images" of Christ—they are cases in point.
Amen.
