You are my God. You are worthy of all praise. You are the essence of all life because all created things have been fashioned by Your hands. Look upon Your servant this day Father God, for I desire to know You deeper. Draw me into Your heart through worship. Take me into Your counsel with praise. For I know that I belong with You. All that I am has been fashioned by Your hands. I know that face to face with You, I will one day experience the fullness of love. So I will wait without fear for the day of the Lord. I will embrace the trials that shape me and the wounds that haunt me because I know they have been sifted by Your compassionate hands. In the things not yet seen, I will place my hope. In the days not yet written, I will surrender. Rip the veil from the eyes of my heart as I gaze upon the cross in awe and wonder. As Your grace splashes over me, I will fulfill my life to be an act of worship. For I am the child You died to save. Under the mercy of Philippians 2:5-8 and the authority of Christ Jesus, these prayers I set at Your holy feet.

Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of Himself that He had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, He set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, He stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, He lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
Philippians 2:5-8, MSG