Resurrected life

Easter. How should we respond?

"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus, who, 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, being made in human likeness. And, being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross."

This is resurrected life. Submission in order to truly be free. Setting yourself aside in order to truly love. And, in this process, unity and fellowship and fulfillment. Logically, it doesn't make sense. But nearly ten years of following have shown me that this is where true joy lies.