Philippians

Christ’s humility, we are to be imitators of Him at all times, his humility blows my mind, it is a life changing and breath taking concept, if He who was in very nature God, God’s Son, one in essence and substance  with the Father; as Athanasius declared at the Council of Nicaea in 325, after the attacks on the Divinity of our Lord Jesus by Arius, asserting that Jesus was a created being, that there was a point in history when God the Father created Jesus out of nothing, that there was a point in eternity when the Son did not exist then brought into the world as a mere creation agent, utterly denying His co-existence with the Father, anyway I went off topic.

So if He, the One and Only, did not consider himself equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing taking the very nature of a servant and being made in human likeness why would I think of myself as the whole package, I mean, do I consider myself better than my brothers and sisters? Do I claim leadership positions because I think that I am the better leader?

And we can clearly see in the coming verses in chapter 2 that by becoming like Him, when we become nothing and made ourselves of no value before others God the Father brings exaltation; the gospels agree on this point as well.