). He took on him the form of a slave. He
humbled himself. He became obedient; obedient to death; and that
death the shameful and dreadful death of the cross.

Therefore God has highly exalted him; has declared him to be
perfectly good, worthy of all praise, honour, glory, power, and
dominion; and has given him a name above all names, the name of
Jesus--Saviour. One who saved others, and cared not to save
himself.

And therefore, too, God has given him that dominion of which he is
worthy, and has proclaimed him Lord and Creator of all beings and
all worlds, past, present, and to come.

It is of him; of his obedience; of his unselfishness, that Passion
Week speaks to us. It tell us of the mind of Christ, and says, 'Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.'

How, then, shall we keep his Passion Week? There are several ways
of keeping it, and all more or less good. Wisdom is justified of
all her children.

But no way will be safe for us, unless we keep in mind the mind of
Christ--obedience and self-sacrifice.

Some, for instance, are careful this week to attend church as often
as possible; and who will blame them?

But unless they keep in mind the mind of Christ, they are apt to
fall into the mistake of using vain repetitions, as the heathen do;
and of fancying, like them, that they shall be heard for their much
speaking, forgetting their Father in heaven knows what they have
need of, before they ask him. And that is not like the mind of
Christ. It is not like the mind of Christ to fancy that God dwells
in temples made with hands; or that he can be worshipped with men's
hands, as though he needed anything; seeing he giveth to all life,
and breath, and all things. For in him we live, and move, and have
our being; and (as even the heathen poet knew), are the offspring,
the children, of God.

It is _not_ according to the mind of Christ, to worship God as the
heathen do, in order to win him to do our will. It _is_ according
to the mind of Christ to worship God, in order that we may do his
will; to believe that God's will is a good will, good in itself, and
good for us, and for all things and beings; and, therefore, to ask
for strength to do God's will, whatever it may cost us. That is the
mind of Christ, who came not to do his own will, but the will of him
who sent him; who taught us to pray, as the greatest blessing for
which we can ask, 'Father, thy will be done on earth, as it is in
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