Are you trying to be something?

I just listened to a sermon by Matt Chandler, lead pastor at the Village Church in Texas (a Acts 29 church), called Foot-Washing. It was essentially about Christian service for Jesus. One of his points was explaining how God loves service that's done in private. He contrasted public service with private service by contrasting his churches parking team and the preaching team. He said that no one will ever thank the parking team, but the preaching team will always get emails thanking them for their service. Then he said something really convicting to me:

We’ve got far too many people trying to become something and not enough people trying to become nothing.

Are we serving humbly, trying to count others as more significant than ourselves?

Matt then referenced Philippians 2:1-11

1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.