NOTHING stands out more clearly in the lives of the Hebrew prophets than the fact that it was when they felt God's presence, realized God's immanence, that they were able to overcome the difficulties which presented themselves for solution. In the case of Moses this was very marked. From the time he had the great revelation of God as the I AM, as the eternal One, typified by the bush which burned but was not consumed, he relied to a wonderful degree upon God, the Almighty, the result being that he led a nation, which for centuries had been in bondage, to the land of promise, overcoming numerous difficulties on the way, difficulties which would have been insurmountable without divine guidance. Moses understood his sufficiency to be of the Almighty, God, and he demonstrated the fact in a truly marvelous fashion.
But great as was Moses' reliance on God, it was small in comparison with that of Christ Jesus. The Saviour had a realization of man's at-one-ment with God which has never before or since been equaled. It was his extraordinarily clear understanding of the unity, the eternal unity, which exists between God and man that gave him the spiritual power he possessed to heal disease, to destroy sin, to overcome material law, so called, in the way he did. And Jesus did not hesitate to speak of his unity with God. Once, after healing on the Sabbath day one who had been infirm for thirty-eight years, he said to the Jews who desired "to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God," "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." Besides, we have his words, addressed to the troubled disciple, Philip, on the occasion when he sought to comfort the disciples: "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." An understanding of man's unity with God, nothing else, can explain Jesus' doctrine and deeds.
The same sense of unity, if in less degree, characterized the apostles. These words of Paul to the Corinthians testify to this: "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." We have but to study this valiant Christian's life, as his own writings in the New Testament portray it, to see how strong was his reliance upon God, and how that reliance constantly came to his aid in the overcoming of the numerous problems which he encountered in bringing Christ Jesus' message of salvation to the Gentile nations. Paul had a large measure of the spiritual understanding which animated the Master; and, accordingly, he did mighty works similar to those performed by the Galilean Prophet.
