As we begin to wrap up our week on living poor in spirit, today we'll examine the life of Jesus as our example and how he always put others first.

As we seek to understand how to live a lowly life of love. May you be envisioned and encouraged today to love God

and others well. God wants to use you as a vessel of his grace and love in this world. Will you let

him? Welcome to the first 15 podcast. All throughout scripture, God paints a clear picture of what it looks like to live poor and spirit,

to live low.

As we dive into the depths of God's Word, I pray our lives will begin to be molded and shaped

by the capable, loving hands of our potter.

I pray that we will look to the grace of God as our source and

strength to pursue a lifestyle of humility. And I pray our lives will be enriched and blessed by the

loving, powerful presence of a God who dwells with those who live low.

Philippians 2, 3 through 7 says,

do nothing from rivalry or conceit,

but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Let each of you look not only to his own interests,

but also to the interests of others.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form

of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing,

taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Living low always begins by looking at the life of Jesus.

He is the author and perfector of our faith. He is the example of what it looks like to live perfectly by the grace of the father in a lifestyle of humble surrender. And scripture makes it clear that he is our standard. A life

like his is the goal. Jesus, although King of King and Lord of Lords, did everything out of total love

for God and man. The only man to ever live a perfect life looked to the interest of others above his own.

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