Cradle, Cross & Crown

There are those rare occasions when a message will come to me when I least expect it. Most of the time, I discover messages during a time of intense prayer and Bible study. However, there are those select moments—while driving or exercising or cutting grass or doing something else—the Lord will give me a message from a particular passage. While driving in my automobile yesterday afternoon, the Lord thrilled me with a message from Philippians 2:5-11.

Even though the message is in its infancy, you can still start seeing the form of its content through this simple outline:

The CRADLE of Christ proves He was a SERVANT.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:5-7

The CROSS of Christ proves He was OBEDIENT.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:8

The CROWN of Christ proves He was HUMBLE.

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11

We should give thanks for the cradle, cross and crown of Christ.