Let me then ask, do you believe in the Incarnation? And if you do, let
me ask further, Was Jesus ever less divine than God? I answer for you,
Never. He was lower, but never less divine. Was he not a child then?
You answer, "Yes, but not like other children." I ask, "Did he not look
like other children?" If he looked like them and was not like them, the
whole was a deception, a masquerade at best. I say he was a child,
whatever more he might be. God is man, and infinitely more. Our Lord
became flesh, but did not _become_ man. He took on him the form of man:
he was man already. And he was, is, and ever shall be divinely
childlike. He could never have been a child if he would ever have
ceased to be a child, for in him the transient found nothing. Childhood
belongs to the divine nature. Obedience, then, is as divine as Will,
Service as divine as Rule. How? Because they are one in their nature;
they are both a doing of the truth. The love in them is the same. The
Fatherhood and the Sonship are one, save that the Fatherhood looks down
lovingly, and the Sonship looks up lovingly. Love is all. And God is
all in all. He is ever seeking to get down to us--to be the divine man
to us. And we are ever saying, "That be far from thee, Lord!" We are
careful, in our unbelief, over the divine dignity, of which he is too
grand to think. Better pleasing to God, it needs little daring to say,
is the audacity of Job, who, rushing into his presence, and flinging
the door of his presence-chamber to the wall, like a troubled, it may
be angry, but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of him whose
perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn: "Am I a sea or a whale, that
thou settest a watch over me?"

Let us dare, then, to climb the height of divine truth to which this
utterance of our Lord would lead us.