A Meditation to Embrace the Mindset of Humility from Philippians 2:3-5

Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life with Pastor Dave Cover

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination.

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Philippians 2:3-5 NIV

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

If you want to flourish in God’s universe, always choose humility.

Here’s how Paul defines humility.

1Not using others to bring a sense of value and significance to yourself. Rather, humility wants to show other people their value.

2Not using others to advance your own interests. Rather, humility cares first about the interests/needs/story of others.

3And what will always ruin relationships is selfish ambition and trying to bring recognition and glory to yourself.

But all this is impossible if we don’t have the sense of our value and significance and future glory that’s already ours in the gospel of Christ. When we believe/trust the gospel, we don’t have to use others to get what we already have. We’re freed to be humble.

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