2. Walk as Christ did, in humility. His life was a pattern of humility. He was the heir of heaven, the Godhead was in him, ‘yet he took on him the form of a servant,’ Phil. 2:7. O infinite humility for a Saviour to become a servant, for the Lord of glory to lay aside his robe, and put on a livery; as if a king should leave his throne, and wait at table: nay, that is not all, but Christ washeth his disciples’ feet. ‘He poured water into a bason, and began to wash his disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel,’ John 13:6. No wonder it is said that he came in the form of a servant; he stands here with his bason of water and a towel! Yea, to express the depth of his humility, he was made in the likeness of men. O how did Christ abase himself in taking flesh! it was more humility in Christ to humble himself to the womb than to the cross. It was not so much for flesh to suffer, but for God to be made flesh; this was the wonder of humility. We read Christ’s flesh is called a vail, Heb. 10:20. ‘Through the vail, his flesh;’ indeed the taking of flesh was the wearing of a vail. By putting this dark vail upon him, he eclipsed the glory of the Deity. This was Christ’s ‘emptying of himself,’ Phil. 2 which Tertullian renders, he exhausted himself. The metaphor may allude to a vessel full of wine that is drawn out; Christ, in whom all fulness dwells, by humility seemed to be so drawn out, as if there had been nothing left in him. Behold here a rare pattern of humility.

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