Philippians 2:5-11 / Luke 14:15-24
To down-size or to down-grade is not easy nor is it a pleasant experience.
More often than not, it is done because of unfavourable circumstances, with the only option left of either down-sizing or down-grading.
Or it may be done out of pragmatic reasons or to minimise the problems or the troubles.
But in the 1st reading, we hear of something more drastic than just down-sizing or down-grading.
It says this of Jesus Christ: His state was divine yet he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.
Just to think of it is certainly astounding and astonishing.
How can divinity which is so supreme take on humanity which is so lowly?
We are just so confounded by this, and it is God who willingly take on the limitations of humanity.
It only shows how great is God's love for human beings that in order so save humanity, God became a human being and to experience human weakness and mortality.
So let us not take God's love and the invitation to salvation lightly or for granted.
God became man so that man can be raised up to be like God.
We have to decide and choose what we want to become.