In ANH, when Uncle Owen is buying droids from the Jawas, the red R2 unit he acquires turns out to have a bad motivator in it. C3PO quickly jumps in to tell Luke that the other R2 unit (R2D2) “is in prime condition and a real bargain.”
As the droids and Luke head inside, C3PO tells R2D2, “Now, don’t you forget this! Why I should stick my neck out for you is quite beyond my capacity!”
We know that C3PO is programmed to be a protocol droid and was programmed to understand moisture vaporators. This incident with the Jawas is not the last time we see C3PO do something that is outside his programming.
If a droid can do things outside of its original programming, are we not able to as well?
Paul tells believers in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”
If believers were doing that, why would Paul tell them that? He would not. Paul had to tell them because they were not living that out but were living out their original programming.
The people then, and us now, need to make a change since living out Philippians 2:3 does not come naturally to us. Throughout Scripture, we are called to do more than we think we can do.
How do we live out the seemingly impossible?
We can not do it alone.
We need to become like Paul, who said in Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
Pray today to be like Paul, who was trying to be more like Christ Jesus. God will honor a prayer like this if it is sincere.
