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Devotional For the Week 21st March 2005

Meditations on the Cross
Scripture Text: Philippians 2:5-12

As we journey towards Good Friday and Easter Sunday this week, let us meditate on the Cross, and how it speaks to us of the astounding nature of our Lord Jesus Christ: His servanthood, His submission, His sacrifice and His sovereignty. May we be moved to be like Him!

Pray and meditate over this passage:

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,
  being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man,
  he humbled himself
  and became obedient to death—
    even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
  and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
  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.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

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