"He showed first of all what a condescension it was for
(1) Christ to become a man... described the environments of sin and the Holy Person living in the midst of it. Then he stopped and said, 'And He took this place -- became a man for me.
(2) Christ became a slave for me. He washed His disciple's feet -- this was the work of a slave. He stooped and became a slave for me... He who was King of kings, who had the worship and adoration of the hosts of Heaven, a real slave on earth! 'And all... for me, for me."
(3) Jesus became a dog for me. Hyde said that he was thinking of the Syrophenecian woman, and how Jesus applied the contemptible word "dog" to her and the Gentiles, and then he said, the Holy Spirit led my thoughts to the truth that Jesus had died for the Gentiles, for these dogs -- then it must be that Jesus had taken the dog's place.
"Christ... wanted men to realize that He had gone down, even below men, for the purpose of lifting them up... Christ had nowhere to lay His head. That is how the dogs of the East live*; they have no place they can call 'home.' The dogs of the East have constant kicks and blows from men, and that is how men treated our beloved Saviour, driven away from men, receiving oftentimes great unkindness at the hands of men, cruel words, scoffs, blows, and at last cruelly killed.
"Christ going lower and lower, suffering more and more, and all for me.
"If we could only spend time alone with Christ, what visions we would get, how we also could speak of Him to others, until they had visions of Him."
~from The Life of John "Praying" Hide, excerpts from pp. 79-82
Italics in the original
*Note: I do not know if "dogs of the East" are still treated this way today. This book was written long years ago.
Philippians 4:5-11
"5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."