Do Unto Others with Humility
We are called to embody the humble, other-oriented, self-sacrificial, enemy-embracing love mindset. This is the mindset that Paul advocates in Ephesian’s text. It is the mindset of Jesus. Jesus, though by nature God, didn’t use his status as God for self-serving purposes. Instead, he humbled himself and he divested himself of the use of any aspect of his divinity that was inconsistent with him becoming a full human. Then he humbled himself further by remaining obedient to God the Father, even to the point of going to the cross, out of love and on our behalf.
This is the mindset we are to adopt because this is the only thing that brings eternal life and God’s eternal kingdom. It is the only thing that lasts.