Should strive, and should prevail.

Man conquered man's foe, and in the only way in which that foe could be
conquered, the way of obedience. "He became obedient unto death." The
Death was in a real sense the victory, for its only meaning and value
consisted in its being the crown and culmination of His life-long
obedience. The Resurrection itself, in one aspect of it, was but the
symbol, the "sign," of that victory which was already achieved upon the
Cross.

But what has this to do with us? It cannot be too often repeated, that
it has nothing to do with us, if Christ be merely "Another," separate
from us as we are, or imagine ourselves to be, separate from each other.
That which He took of the Virgin Mary, and took in the only way in which
it could have been taken, by the Virgin Birth, was not a separate human
individuality, but human nature; that nature which we all share. It was
in that nature that He faced and overcame our enemy.

Here we pause to note a difficulty based on a misunderstanding. If
Christ were a Divine Person, working in and through human nature, if that
humanity which He assumed were itself impersonal, then how could He have
had a human will? And, after all, is an impersonal human nature really
human? That is the difficulty, and the very fact that we feel it as a
difficulty, is a proof that we have not yet grasped that conception of
the Divine Nature which underlies the belief in the Incarnation. God and
man are not beings of a different order. The humanity of every man is
the indwelling in him of the Word Who became flesh. Each one of us is a
shadow, a reflection of the Incarnation. In Jesus Christ God came; and,
it would be equally true to say, in Him first, man came. All human
nature, I believe it would be true to say all organic nature, pointed
forward to the Incarnation as its fulfilment, as the justification for
its existence.

Thus, when it is said that the human nature of Christ was impersonal,
what is meant is, impersonal in the modern and restricted sense of
personality. The phrase is useful, when explained, to guard against the
idea, which is contrary to the very principle of the Atonement, that the
Son of man was just one more human soul added to the myriads of human
souls who have appeared on this planet. He Who became Incarnate is the
true self of every man, the very Light of true personality in all men. As
a matter of fact, He was more truly humanly Personal t