esus. We cannot experience that grace except as we let Jesus
be Lord. Absolute and entire self-commitment to Him allows Him to renew
us after His own likeness and equip us for service in His cause. He
cannot transform a partially devoted life, nor use a half-dedicated man.
Those who yield Him lordship, treating Him as God by giving Him their
adoring trust and complete obedience, discover His Godhood. To them He
proves Himself, by all that He accomplishes in and through them, worthy
of their fullest devotion and reverence. He becomes to them God
manifest in a human life.

While in the order of our experience Jesus comes first, as we follow
Him, He makes Himself always second. He points us from Himself to the
Father, like Himself and greater; "My Father is greater than I." There
is a remoteness, as well as a nearness, in God; it is His "greaterness"
which gives worth to His likeness. To use a philosophical phrase, only
the transcendent God can be truly immanent. We prize Immanuel--God
_with_ us, because through Him we climb to God _above_ us. Jesus is the
Way; but no one wishes to remain forever en route; he arrives; and home
is the Father. Jesus is the image of the invisible God; but the image on
the retina of our eye is not something on which we dwell; we see through
it the person with whom we are face to face. We know God our Father in
His Son. Every aspect of Jesus' character unveils for us an aspect of
the character of the Lord of heaven and earth. Every experience through
which Jesus passed in His life with men suggests to us an experience
through which our Father is passing with us His children. The cross on
Calvary is a picture of the age-long and present sacrifice of our God as
He suffers with and for us. The open grave is for us the symbol of His
unconquerable love, stronger than the world and sin and death. God's
embodiment of Himself in this Son, made in all points like ourselves,
attests the essential kinship between Him and us--God's humanity and our
potential divinity.

Do we know God in the Spirit? His incarnation in Jesus evidences His
"incarnability," and His eagerness to have His fulness dwell in every
son who will receive Him. To know God in the Spirit is so to follow
Jesus that we share His sonship with the Father and have Him abiding in
us, working through us His works, manifesting Himself in our mortal
lives.

Our Father is the great public Spirit of the universe, the most
responsible and respons