What an incredible example of progressive living is found in the life of our Master, Christ Jesus. What immense joy and promise he must have brought to those he healed. Each step of his three-year ministry had spiritual purpose, leading to the next step. And though resistance dogged his mission, he never hesitated, knowing he was fulfilling God's law of progress.
Nowhere could apathy or fear be found in the Master's life or his work of healing. These works constantly defied limitations of material laws. He knew that God, his Father, was his Life, impelling and governing his actions. His spontaneous feeding of the multitudes, his immediate healing response to those weighed down by stultifying materialism, exhibited a thought fresh with spiritual animation. What could oppose such glorious achievements, such creative living?
Jesus knew he was the Son of God. He came to show that the real man—the real identity of each of us as God's child—lives in divine Spirit and has spiritual being. "It is the spirit," Jesus said, "that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." John 6:63
