things? Do we really share Christ's outlook upon GOD, or His hope for
man? Is our view of life centred in GOD, as was His? Or do His words
of reproach fit us, as they fitted S. Peter--"You think like a man,
and not like GOD"?

"The way to faith in GOD, and to love for man," it has been said, "is
to come nearer to the living Jesus." If we would learn Christ's great
prophecy about man and GOD, we must read the Gospels over again, with
awakened eyes. We must take seriously the man Christ Jesus. We must
hear the words of His prophecy, and face honestly the challenge of His
sayings. We must confront the central Figure of the Gospels in all its
tremendous realism, watering down nothing, explaining nothing away;
"wrestling with Jesus of Nazareth as Jacob wrestled with the angel,
and refusing to let Him go except He bless us." In the end He does
bless those who wrestle with Him, and we shall not in the end be able
to stop short of confessing Him as GOD.

For the message of the Gospel story is ultimately not even the
teaching of Christ: it is Christ Himself. He, alone among the world's
teachers, perfectly practised what He preached, and embodied what He
taught. And therefore the truth of GOD and the ideal for man in Him
are one. In Him we see man as he ought to be, man as he is meant to
be. And because we instinctively judge that the highest human nature
is divine, and because also we feel that GOD Himself would be most
divine and worshipful if we could conceive of Him as entering in and
sharing our human experience and revealing Himself as man, those who
have reflected most deeply about the matter have commonly been led to
believe that so indeed it is. They have felt that in Jesus Christ man,
as the mirror and the Son of GOD, reflects the Father's glory. They
have felt that in Jesus Christ GOD, the Eternal Source of all things,