IT is interesting to note the publicity given and the personal homage sometimes paid to individuals who have done either some great thing for humanity's sake or what seems to have been of general benefit to the world at large. But for those benefactors of mankind who have realized that real benefits can result only from the demonstration of the understanding of God's laws, personal homage has little or no interest. Those who crave and even demand personal homage in recognition of some service they have rendered, or may think they have rendered, should consider well the humility and gratitude shown by Christ Jesus and others who "in spirit and in truth" have endeavored to follow his teachings and to walk in his footsteps.
That Jesus recognized God as his intelligence, wisdom, and substance, and that he was but obeying God's laws, is indicated by his words, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." Was it not his recognition of Truth that made him the greatest demonstrator of God's laws the world has ever seen? It is evident that Christ Jesus recognized continually his true scientific existence with God.
Notwithstanding the many wonderful works Jesus did, he constantly realized he was about his Father's business only. He claimed no personal power of his own, but said, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do." There does not seem to have been a time or circumstance in which he lost sight of man's true relationship to God. He knew constantly that God is the source of all wisdom, intelligence, love, and power. When he was moved with compassion because the multitude needed spiritual renewal and healing, he did not tell his disciples to go out and get laborers and bring them to him for instruction on how to do God's work, but he said, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." Conscious as he must have been of his own ability to demonstrate man's true relationship with God by overcoming sin, sickness, and death, yet he wanted his disciples to recognize no power in him, but to look to God as the source of supply for their every need.
