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Man's highest attainment comes through inner revelation, His part is to learn God's plan, to realize and cooperate with the divine purpose within himself.
Since Jesus is the one who has attained beyond all others, let us study his life. Not merely to get the historical setting or to be able to picture his personality and environment--but in order to lay hold of the knowledge that was his, the principles that actuated him, the motive that impelled him, the love that radiated through him.
To follow Jesus does not mean to repeat his outward experiences in one's own living, but it means to lay hold of life as he did. It means coming to understand God, man, and world processes as he understood them. It means living the Christ-life here and now.
Jesus was conscious of God; so must we be. Jesus knew unity with God--for himself, for all; so we must know oneness with the Father. Jesus lived and loved in a manner that made his very presence a healing power; so must we live and love if we, like Jesus, are to bear witness to the Truth of God's presence and all that it implies.
--Nona L. Brooks
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