我在醫院探訪病人時，一位年輕醫生的行為令我印象深刻。當時他正與其他的住院醫生站在一起，聆聽一位資深醫生講解一位女病人的病情。突然，這位女病人焦急地表示要上廁所，但她無法起身，而且她顯然已等不及召喚護理員到病房幫忙。

當大家都不知所措時，這位年輕醫生從置物架上取下一個便盆，並協助那位女病人。當護理員趕到時，她驚訝地發現早已有人幫助了這個女病人。這位資深醫生很欣慰地讚揚了這位年輕醫生，因他願意不拘於身分而伸出援手。

耶穌並沒有因為自己至高的地位而拒絕幫助世人。雖然祂「本來有上帝的形象，卻不堅持自己與上帝平等的地位」（腓立比書2章6節，新譯本）。基督降世為人，成為我們的贖罪祭，為我們捨命。祂看見我們需要幫助和救贖，甘心謙卑地為我們犧牲祂的生命（8節）。正如保羅告訴我們，耶穌「甘願放下一切，取了奴僕的形象」（7節，當代譯本修訂版）。

在與人互動交流中，我們蒙召要效法耶穌的態度和祂捨己的榜樣。無論是看似多麼卑微的事，讓我們倚靠祂的幫助，謙卑地服事人。

As I visited a patient in the hospital, I was struck by the actions of a young doctor standing with a team of other inexperienced physicians. The group listened as a more seasoned doctor explained about the patient’s health. Suddenly, the patient anxiously announced that she needed to use the bathroom and couldn’t get up. In fact, she couldn’t wait for a nurse’s aide to be summoned to the room.

Amid the frantic scene, the young doctor got a bed pan off the shelf and assisted the patient. When the nurse’s aide arrived, she was shocked to find someone had already assisted the patient. The lead physician proudly acknowledged the assistance of the young doctor.

Jesus didn’t cling to His divinity and refuse to assist humanity. Though He was “in very nature God, [He] did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage” (Philippians 2:6). As a human, Christ was able to become our sin offering and sacrifice Himself for us. He saw our need for help and salvation, and He humbly laid down His life (v. 8). Paul wrote, “He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (v. 7).

We’re called to imitate Jesus’ attitude and sacrificial ways in our relationships with others. As He helps us, let’s humbly serve them no matter how lowly the job may seem.