In very nature God

Maybe this borders on being too theological but I'll share it. I was talking with George about the leadership post. (I've almost got him convinced that he should blog. Almost...) He reminded me of the passage he's been thinking and talking alot about lately. Call it observation or call it revelation depending where on the spectrum you stand:

^{Philippians 2:5-11
5}Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
⁶Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
⁷but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness. . .

You should read the whole passage. But his observation is that all these qualities are "in very nature, God." Did God change when He came to earth? Did Jesus change when He ascended?
Or is He the same, yesterday, today and forever?

Man created in the image of God? God taking the form of man? Who is this God we serve?

Last year during Advent when I was reading the passages about the glory of God I realized that the glory of God is that He bends down to the lowly, as opposed to the glory we associate with a rich, famous, politically powerful king or famous person - a really interesting word study (still looking at each in context) Maybe it comes full circle. He is King, but who He is defines "king". Who He is defines "glory."

We see through a mirror darkly, or maybe glimpses through a dirty window, but we keep looking and every glimpse we get of the Living God changes us and (hopefully) we'll reflect on Him and reflect Him a wee bit more - ambassadors to the world, to one another and to our children.