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E. Stanley Jones on what really matters

Our family devotion this morning was from E. Stanley Jones' Christian Maturity. It comes on Week 1-Saturday (pg.7 in my edition).  Scripture reference is Philippians 2:5-11: 5  Have this attitude  [ a ] in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,   6  who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be  [ b ] grasped,   7  but  [ c ] emptied Himself, taking the form of abond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.   8  Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death  [ d ] on a cross.   9  For this reason also, Godhighly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,   10  so that at the name of Jesus  every knee will bow,  of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,   11  and that eve...