Here is something I find to be a bit odd.
Jesus Christ, who was in the form of God, since he was of the same being as God, did not consider this equality with God as something to be held onto. Rather, without losing any of his divinity, he humbled himself by taking on the form of a man, and by becoming obedient to God the Father until death, death on a cross. Because of this self-emptying of Christ, God the Father exalted him to the highest place in the universe.
We, on the other hand, as mere human beings, erroneously think we are in the form of God, and want to hold onto our equality with God; so rather than emptying and humbling ourselves by becoming obedient to God, we do our own thing, thinking this is how we continue to be like God.
Should we not have learned the paradox set forth by our Lord that our exaltation to oneness with God occurs when we die to ourselves and not when we live for ourselves?
May God, in his mercy, help us.
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