WHAM!

It's always so interesting to me how Paul can be just writing along and then WHAM! hit us with some of what as followers of Jesus should be basic behaviors & attitudes...

And then turn right around & make a definitive statement about the Jesus we follow.

I wonder if Paul did that all in one fell swoop as he dictated it to his scribe, or if he dictated the WHAM! part & came back later with the definition of Jesus.

It might be noteworthy that Paul wrote this while in prison...

Philippians 2

3 Don’t be selfish; 

don’t try to impress others. 

Be humble, 

thinking of others as better than yourselves. 

4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, 

but take an interest in others, too.

5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

6 Though he was God,
    he did not think of equality with God
    as something to cling to.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
    he took the humble position of a slave
    and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
8     he humbled himself in obedience to God
    and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor
    and gave him the name above all other names,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.