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  LIKE UNTO US
  by Hudson Taylor
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Summary: Jesus' example of becoming like unto His brethren teaches us
the importance of humility and service in our own lives.

Topics: "Humility Of Christ", "Christian Missions"
Scripture References: John 13:3, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Philippians 2:7, Hebrews 2:17

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James Hudson Taylor emphasizes the humility and compassion of Jesus
Christ, who chose to become fully human in order to save mankind. Taylor
highlights how Jesus could have appeared in a more majestic form to
attract more followers, but instead, He chose to identify with the
people He came to save, even enduring indignity and suffering. Taylor
encourages Christian missionaries to follow Jesus' example of humility
and service, seeking to identify with the poor and marginalized to bring
them to salvation through Jesus Christ.

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"Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto His
brethren" (Heb. 2:17).

Had our Lord appeared on earth as an angel of light, He would doubtless
have inspired far more awe and reverence, and would have collected
together even larger multitudes to attend His ministry. But to save man
He became Man, not merely like man, but very man. In language, in
costume, in everything unsinful, He made Himself one with those He
sought to benefit. Had He been born a noble Roman, rather than a Jew, He
would, perhaps, if less loved, have commanded more of a certain kind of
respect; and He would assuredly thereby have been spared much indignity
to which He was subjected. This, however, was not His aim; He emptied
Himself.

Surely no follower of the meek and lowly Jesus will be likely to
conclude that it is "beneath the dignity of a Christian missionary" to
seek identification with this poor people, in the hope that he may see
them washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God! Let us rather be followers of Him who
"knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that
He was come from God, and went to God, He riseth from supper, and laid
aside His garments, and took a towel, and girded Himself. After that He
poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to
wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded."

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