Paul won’t spend much time in this letter explaining how God saved us. He gives more attention to that in his other letters. But the understanding that underlies this whole letter is that we have a God who saves – a God who speaks for our good. And that explains why we listen to his voice, with trust and with joy...
Even if we abandoned our houses and bodies and brains and our playthings, and we stooped down to take on the form of pond scum – even then, we would not have humbled ourselves as much as Jesus Christ did.