Have you seen those posters at workplaces and classrooms with an eagle soaring above the mountains? The caption reads: Your attitude determines your altitude! The message is clear; right thinking enables one to fly higher. This motto also holds a truth for believers to cling to, but not in the way you might think. Romans 15, Philippians 2, and other New Testament passages urge us to adopt the attitude of Jesus Christ. An attitude of self-sacrifice; of compassion toward others; of patience under fire; an attitude bent on making and keeping peace. Popular logic would have us to believe these positions lead only to failure. Yet in reality, they carry us to the heights of a meaning-filled, purposeful life. Jesus, who made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant; dying in our place seemed a foolish act by the Son of God! But, it was by that sacrifice that God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every other name (Phil 2:7, 9). The lowly attitude that took Jesus to the cross, as it were determined his lofty altitude! We are to be like Jesus: God calls us to serve and to soar.
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