How Jesus Grasped Equality With God February 11, 2021 Keith Giles Image: Pexels A few days ago I realized something pretty astounding about Philippians 2 that I had never seen before. In my younger days, I always read this passage about how Christ “being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant…” as if God is “up there”, exalted, high above the world and creation, full of power and might and perhaps even wrath mingled with a hint of disgust. But as I’ve started to deconstruct those ideas about who God is what God is like [patterned after what we see in the life and character of Jesus who said “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father” and “I only do what I see the Father doing”], this verse suddenly hit me a totally different way.