Sunday, July 24

He did not close his eyes to the interests of others

Don’t forget, cries Paul, that in all this wide universe and in all the dim reaches of history there has never been such a demonstration of self-effacing humility as when the Son of God in sheer grace descended to this errant planet! Remember that never — never in a million aeons — would He have done it if He were the kind of Deity who looks ‘only to his own interests’ and closes His eyes to the ‘interests of others!’ You must remember, my brethren, that through your union with Him, in living, redemptive experience, this principle and passion by which He was moved must become the principle and passion by which you are moved.

— Paul Stromberg Rees
The Adequate Man: Paul in Philippians
(Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1959), 43

(HT: Mark Tubbs)