Jesus Is So Much to Us

November 14
Philippians 2:1-13

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 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: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12 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, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”


Jesus is so much to us. He is our High Priest, Hebrews 5:10, Hebrews 6:20; He is our Maker, John 1:1-3, Genesis 1:1; He is our Healer, Matthew 9:35; He is our Provider in answer to our prayers, Mark 11:22-24; He is our Savior, the One who sacrificed Himself to redeem us from our sin, Acts 4:12; and He is the One who has promised that we who believe shall have the power to set men free from all that besets them through the power of our prayers as promised in Acts 4:29-30 which says, “And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of Your holy child Jesus.”

May we never be undone—not by calamity, not by wars or rumors of war, not by persecution or famine or sword, Romans 8:35, but may we remain steadfast in faith and strong in our witness of the Christ who gave up His rightful place in Heaven in order that we may dwell there with Him. Nothing we are ever called upon to sacrifice can approximate all He has sacrificed for us, so let us be resolute in our determination to hold fast to Him forever.