the discipline of service

"More than any other single way the grace of humility is worked into our lives is through the Discipline of service...Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service, It strains and pulls for honor and recognition." ~Richard Foster

Your attitudes should be the same as that of Christ Jesus, who-precisely because He was in very nature God--did not consider equality with God to be grounds for grasping, but poured Himself out, taking the very nature of a servant.

"...Jesus did not take on the 'outward form' of a servant. The apostle Paul who penned this, used the same term, morphe, to describe both Jesus' servanthood and His Godhood. When Jesus came in the form of a servant, He was not temporarily putting on servanthood. He was revealing the very heart...the nature of God.

I remember hearing a Christian speaker say once that pride is forbidden to human beings, but is okay in God because, after all, He is God. This is wrong. God is the Infinite Servant. God is the most humble being in all the universe. Jesus did not come as a servant in spite of the fact that He is God; He came as a servant because being a servant IS the essence of God's character."

~John Ortberg from The Life You've Always Wanted