To express certitude in our lives, not with fanaticism or human resolution but with spiritual authority, we must know God, and therefore our relation to Him. ''He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me," said Jesus.
If there is a belief of uncertain contact, of self-distrust, or no less of egotism setting itself up to think and act apart from God, certitude and authority are on a crumbling basis or are absent altogether. What Jesus claimed for himself was what he knew was his because it was also God's. When men come to understand that the certitude they express is God's consciousness of Himself expressed in man; when again in the words of Jesus they can say, "I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say. and what I should speak," they will act without haste, without fear, without partiality, in mercy and in love. Then whatever presents itself to them to be done, they will do it, as did the Master, in the certitude that it is God's will, and that He is being glorified.
In the February issue of Fortune there is an article by Professor Hocking of Harvard University, in which the statement is made, "There is all the difference between having a point of certitude and having no certitude at all." And in the same article he explains what this means to him. "It is the truth," he writes, "that the world, like the human self, has its own unity in a living purpose: it is the truth of the existence of God."
