Look at the first. What have we to say about His birth? This: He received
His _life from God_. What about His life upon earth? He lived that life in
dependence _upon God_. About His death? He gave up His life _to God_. About
His resurrection? He was raised from the dead _by God_. And about His
ascension? He lives His life in glory _with God_.
First, He received His life from God. And why is it of consequence that we
should look to that? Because Christ Jesus had in that the starling-point of
His whole life. He said: "The Father sent me;" "The Father hath given the
Son all things;" "The Father hath given the Son to have life in Himself."
Christ received it as His own life, just as God has His life in Himself.
And yet, all the time it was a life given and received. "Because the Father
almighty has given this life unto me, the Son of man on earth, I can count
upon God to maintain it and to carry me through all." And that is the first
lesson we need. We need often to meditate on it, and to pray, and to
think, and to wait before God, until our hearts open to the wonderful
consciousness that the everlasting God has a divine life within us which
can not exist but through Him.
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