FOR OUR SAKES HE TOOK UPON HIM THE FORM OF A SERVANT. He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. He who was the brightness of God's glory, the express image of the Father's person humbled Himself. He was with God, and was God; He was the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Yet He humbled himself. How? By taking our nature, by becoming a servant, by stooping to obey, even unto death. Look at the manger. Look at the carpenter's shop. Look at the cottage of Nazareth. Look at the Jordan. Look at the homeless wanderer. Look at Gethsemane. Look at Golgotha. Look at Joseph's tomb. Now need you ask, "How did He humble Himself?" The scene is before you. But why did He humble himself? Because He loved us. It was the stoop of majesty, under the power of infinite love. He humbled himself that He might mingle with mankind and enter personally into our infirmities and wants, know our feelings, die in our stead, and having suffered being tempted, know how to succour those that are tempted. He humbled Himself to exalt us. He stooped low, to raise us high; He suffered, that we may rejoice; died, that we may live. Amazing humiliation! Wondrous love!

For Meditation:
Did pity ever stoop so low,
Dressed in divinity and blood?
Was ever rebel courted so,
In groans of an expiring God?