One of my favorite albums is a tastefully deep, yet not well known, CD from Michael Card called "Poiema". Lately, a song from that collection has been going through my head. The song is called: "Things We Leave Behind", and it talks about abandon and reflects on the calling of the 12 Disciples by Christ. The line that keeps resonating in my mind is a line that melodiously says, "It's hard to imagine the freedom we find from the things that we leave behind."The things that we leave behind don't need to be negative things to experience freedom when leaving them. When we agree with the Apostle Paul to want to know Christ and the power [...]

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.   Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above [...]