January 1926
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GOD THE SON, By Mary E.
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mind grew too. Within the scope of our limited human mental capacities we can little realize the greatness of a God who suffered Himself to become little, to take the form of a weak babe. It is hard for us who are accustomed to flaunting every ability or caPab*1Jfy to recognize that an all-wise God would clothe Himself in an housrof flesh for a season and go through with the common experiences of every human being. But in order to do this must He for a time cease to be God? Dta the Infinite ever become finite? Truly it seems ridiculous, if not sin ful, to suppose that the baby who smiled at the wise men, that the child who played in the carpenter’s shop, that the lad who went up to Jerusalem knew not that He was God Incarnate. Yes, the baby knew that He was God. The child knew that He was God. The lad knew, but His knowledge surpassed all knowledge as Infinite always sur- passes finite, and in His wisdom He could say, “ Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Even His mother did not understand Him. When has man understood God? The young man Jesus again, at the marriage feast, with this same infinite wisdom could say, “ Mine hour is not yet come.” Ah, there never was a time in the life of Jesus when He did not know that He Was God Incarnate! He is from everlasting to everlasting and that leaves no time of absence. He came and dwelt among us and, in a human body, endured all the pangs, all the heartaches, all the torture of soul, all the temptations, that any human body could experience and more than any wholly human body could endure, and this He did that He might intercede with the Father in our behalf, bearing in His body the marks of our sins. He who gave us being, lived and died for us, has for us the gift of eternal life if we look unto Him, God the »on Everlasting, with belief and true faith. ^14. m THY WILL, NOT MINE Thy will, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be.
« mm rj OT long ago a preacher from a denomination which favors an educated ministry pon- f | dered the question of a very U f i m i young person but he did not answer it. He dismissed the question with hopeless finality, as a problem to which he could ofTer no sqlution, but he set me to thinking, or rather the question did. The question which the young person put was! “ How old was Jesus before he discovered that he u?as the Son of God?” The minister said that theologians might argue the question until dooms day, they would never reach a decision nor could they. The hopelessness with which he abandoned the question surprised me at the time, but I did not venture to pursue the subject then. As I am apt to do, I put it back in my brain for future meditation and found that every once in a while it would come forward until what I believe is a tfqal truth dawned upon me. This truth I shall attempt to pass on. The first verse of the Gospel of John says: “ In the beginning was the Word,” and so on through the chapter __you know the context— the truth ie brought out that the Word became flesh. Farther in the chapter it says: ' ‘All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” The Word is the Creator then, God the Maker. Years after the creation a boy was Lborn in Bethlehem whom the world was destined to know in time as God. When this birth occurred did God the Creator depart, become non-existent, for some thirty years while Jesus grew to manhood? Was there an indefinite time from the birth of Christ to some time in His life, when the revelation of His Deity came to Him, when God the Son, God the Creator, the Alpha, and Omega, was either in a dormant state or was limited by the human state in which He existed? Could God not know God? We know little of the babyhood and childhood of Jesus.- We suppdse He ate and slept and grew like countless other babies. Then our weak concep tions go farther and we suppose His
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