Look Not To Your Own Interests

This week we turn to Paul's letter to the Philippians, written to a Roman colony consumed with honor, shame, and status, where public recognition was treated as a currency as valuable as gold. We explore how Paul reorients these values around Christ, who though he was in the form of God emptied himself, took the form of a slave, and humbled himself to the point of death on a cross, the most shameful fate the Roman world could imagine. We are called to set aside our own pride and craving for recognition and to have the same mind as Christ, looking not to our own interests but to the interests of others, serving as our Lord served.